Minnesota Fats Quotes

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

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

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

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

The world loves to be deceived.

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

Great liars are also great magicians.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

The world wants to be deceived.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.

I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.