Judd Trump Quotes

Snooker's got bigger over the last ten years, but obviously it's still on a really small scale.

Ronnie O'Sullivan is the only player in history to be dominant and popular at the same time.

Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

Everybody in the NBA is good. And then you have the really good ones and the great ones.

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

When I arrived at Barcelona and saw Messi's face, and later Luis Suarez, I felt like it was a videogame.

I want to be able to play fast and exciting snooker like my hero Ronnie O'Sullivan.

You are never going to get snooker on to the front pages because there is not enough money in the game here.

No Alex Higgins, no snooker.

40 seems to be the new 25 in snooker so there is no rush, but I would like to start hitting the time where I'm more stable and regularly hitting the quarters and semis, push on and make some money.

There aren't too many Mookie Betts, Mike Trouts or Bryce Harpers out there to be grabbed. Those players only come around once every 10 years.

Not only did I have to face the great Steve Davis for 10 years, Stephen Hendry came along, who attacked the balls. He was such an incredible potter with self-belief.

I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.

I was a big fan of Naseem Hamed, and followed him. Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry and I know him well.

Snooker's only popular in China now. Well China's OK to go to once or twice a year but to go and play six or seven tournaments there is too much.

It might sound strange now from where I'm standing as a world boxing champion, but I harboured serious thoughts, at the age of nine, of putting my whole life into snooker. I remember being fascinated by the game, watching the likes of Steve Davis, and thought I would do it.

How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.

My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.