Mary Karr Quotes

Snooker still fascinates me and I still get a buzz from it.

My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

I love playing O'Sullivan. It is a bit of a role reversal from when I used to play Alex Higgins.

When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.

My mom was a championship pool player.

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

I love pool because it's a game of strategy, a game of the eye, and your whole universe is like this. I really want to become a pool shark.

Pool, it became clear to me, is all about angles. First, there are simple angles, as you must hit the cue ball to either side when you are not straight on.

I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.

I think I'm okay; I got a pretty good shot when I concentrate. I like pool.

My friends, they can't beat me in pool or bowling.

I got into pool tournaments when I was five, playing every weekend in competitions. Then one day I started playing snooker. I learnt by practising on my own, repeating the same shots again and again, and watching other players and copying what they did.

I have always loved playing snooker.

I've played 8-ball in Hong Kong and I'm more knowledgeable with that than 9-ball.

I don't suppose you offered to help?" "Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor." He knocked another ball into a hole. "You want to play?" "What? With you?" "No, with Clarence." He sighed at my dumbfounded look. "Yes, of course with me.

I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.

I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.