Cue Stick Quotes

Paul Newman is not a very good pool player.

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

I am trapped in snooker.

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 love to play pool.

In all the years I've been playing, I've never considered changing my cue. It was the first cue I ever bought, aged 13, picked from a cabinet in a Dunfermline snooker centre just because I liked the Rex Williams signature on it. I saved £40 to buy it. It's a cheap bit of wood, and it's been the butt of other players' jokes for ages.

When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed.

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.

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

You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it's an extension to your arm.

My mom was a championship pool player.

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 just love playing snooker. Every single frame is different. Not one referee ever sets the balls up exactly the same.

I don't think about technique. I just pot the balls.

First thing about snooker, find a cue you're happy with. Then stick with it.

I had such a great affection and love for playing snooker.

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

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

It's easy to make a cue last a lifetime. Don't boil it or freeze it in the trunk of a car. Don't lean it against a wall for years. If you lose a game to a complete idiot, hit the edge of the table in anger with something other than your cue.

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.

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 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.

I have always loved playing snooker.

I like to play pool. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win.