Clive James Quotes

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

Snooker is just chess with balls.

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

Snooker is not like boxing or football - you can go on longer.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

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.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Man, jiu-jitsu is such a chess match.

I like football. It's fun winning the ball from someone. It's fun shooting at goal. It's fun hitting a ball over 60 metres that arrives. It's like in golf: if you hit a ball, and it flies and flies and flies, you enjoy it.

It's not 64 squares. It's a battlefield. There's no luck, there's no dice. It's just you and your opponent.

Nobody can really dominate like Stephen Hendry or Steve Davis. The players are just too good for that.

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 had such a great affection and love for playing snooker.

Playoff basketball isn't about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It's just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

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

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

I have always loved playing snooker.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

I don't put faces on a dartboard. I just love the game, and I think I play it very well.

When I see some of the pitches which my father played on, I think that it must have been a different game.

It's true that in tennis sometimes the margins are very thin.

Chess is a game of stimulation.

Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been.