Quotes About Pool

[sjm]

"I'll shoot your liver out and hand it to you" - Earl Strickland

Earl once said to an opponent at Derby City, and a world class opponent at that, "Play me a long match and I'll turn you into a cab driver!"

 

[dr_dave]

For those interested, I’ve collected a bunch over the years here:

Top 100 Pool and Billiards Maxims, Sayings, and Quotes

Enjoy,
Dave

 

[9BallKY]

A good friend of mine always says

Been a lot of people died on the hill.

 

[hitman22]

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Dead balls are harder to find than they are to make.

Cicero Murphy.....via Blackjack Dave Sapolis

what a beautiful stroke he had.
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[Runner]

I have always liked the Buddhist saying which goes something like:

Every bullseye is the result of 100 misses.

Lou Figueroa
IOWs there ain't
no shortcuts

Reminds me of Gretsky's quote:

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"

 

[Bob Jewett]

Shoot hard and sleep in the street.

"A drunk Girl Scout could have made that shot if you held her up to the table." -- Danny McGoorty as quoted by Byrne.

 

[dr_dave]

"You can't see ugly through bloodshot eyes." (Neal McCoy)

For background info, see my article dealing with the effects of alcohol on perceived and actual levels of play.

Enjoy,
Dave

 

[Runner]

"You can get your teeth fixed... get Lasik surgery for your eyes, get
liposuction for a flat stomach... but I'm here to tell you, folks...
YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID" - Ron White

 

[Nine ... corner]

"I haven't missed one of these since World War I." Minnesota Fats

 

[Denis The Kid]

The late Vince McKintyre from Toronto Canada.

Id rather owe you than not pay you.

 

[Ralph Kramden]

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A quote that applies to all players... "You must own the stop shot line"

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[Frosty]

Resurrecting one here. During interview at a tournament, Chao Fong-Pang was asked what he liked to do when he wasn’t playing pool. His reply, “I like to gamble and smoke”

 

[tim913]

My friend used to tell losers that blamed their equipment …

“you don’t need a better cue, you need a better you!”

 

[9BallKY]

That ball wasn’t dead it was just laying real still.

 

[hurricane145]

Pool...Moments of brilliance surrounded by hours of terror.

 

[alphadog]

Dead balls are like ducks , you have to get them before they migrate.

 

[markjames]

"Pool is a beautiful game played by ugly people." - Joe Rogan

pj
chgo

i believe joe was quoting someone else?

 

[VarmintKong]

"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him." -Blaise Pascal

I often feel that I can almost wrap my head around an idea, but not quite.

What’s the point? There is no reason to sit on my ass on a Sunday afternoon? Haven’t even broke a sweat all day.

Yet, I should sit on my ass after work even though I want to shoot pool because it’s a frivolous pursuit?

Think this Pascal fellow might need a punch in the nose.

 

[VarmintKong]

"I can't hit a cow in the ass with a shovel!"

My daddy always used to say, “couldn’t hit a bull in the butt with a banjo.”

 

[VarmintKong]

"I'm sorry, but I'll just bet you're hitting the balls too hard." George Fels

Guilty.