Your favourite Earl Strickland quotes

Fools

I forget where he said it but it was something like "fools
you are all a bunch of fools " .Oh and some one mentioned
one he said if people would play pool the way it needs to
be played (no jump cues,break from the kitchen etc...)
He would have em all driving cabs .....Earl is funny as hell
I am glad we got him in pool and hope he keeps at it .
 
At the World Eight Ball in Vegas back in the late 90's. Earl is playing Tang, who makes a great comeback to beat Earl 8-7. Every time the crowd applauded for another excellent Tang run out, Earl got more upset.

At the conclusion of the match, he leaned over the rail and leered at one member of Tang's entourage, "You think I'm an asshole, don't you."

The audience member's response, "Right now, you are." All who heard this line broke out in laughter.
 
Earl at World champs -96.

After a very, very slow Okumura missing a fairly tough shot he looks at us for a while and shouts:

-And he?s supposed to be so brilliant!

Goes without saying Earl was losing.

At the end of the match Earl came in after Okumura had run a few.
Earl made a great shot, turned to us:

-Not bad for a guy who hasn?t shot in a week!

At a trickshot-show someone said "you yanks do it with confidence":

-I?m from the south, man I?m NOT a yankee!
 
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At the FL Pro tours they always use one table to layout a bunch of pool merchandise -- there on the table where a bunch of Predator shafts -- Earl happened to be at the table hanging out and messing with his cues... my friend says out-loud "Hey, do they make Predator shafts for CueTec's?", and I said "Man, who the f*#K would play with a Cuetec?".. he just looked over at us and said ".... Wana play some?"
It was funny, we laughed.... and then shut up and walked away.
 
"If this guy beats me with that cue I'll swim home" Said during a World Chamionship match in the early 90's when his opponent was playing with a weirdly decorated cue. Who knew what Earl would be using a decade later? I wonder if BJ thought the same thing.

"Quit moving Ralf" - said while NOT looking at Ralf Souquet (who is a statue when sitting) at a Challenge of Champions match between them.
 
Earl Says,"How Can You Play In This HUMIDITY ?"

The statement that I've heard Earl make more than any other is, "why does this always happened to ME................. and not him ?"
Doug
( oh, and also "who said THAT ?" )
 
At a tournament in Palm Springs, Earl took a tough loss to San Diegan, Billy Graves. When he later found out his next match would be against Jay Swanson, he said, "I come to Palm Springs and I have to play all of San Diego. Of course when I go to LA, I have to play all of Mexico!".

We all got a good laugh, even the Mexicans.
 
Matt_24 said:
Best quote ever from THE PEARL (VARick, correct me if I get this one wrong)

After a tough out....

"my opponent rarely makes an out like that but for me it's routine."

Matt_24 said:
Best quote ever from THE PEARL (VARick, correct me if I get this one wrong)

After a tough out....

"my opponent rarely makes an out like that but for me it's routine."

Pretty darn close, Matt. He's playing Sigel at the Sands and while retrieving the balls and rolling them down table for Mike to rack, he says, "My opponent has NEVER made an out like that...for me it's routine."

In the same match, he makes a strong safety and, pointing at his head, says, "Knowledge, knowledge."

In the post-match interview after Efren made the famous double bank kick (Z-shot) against him, Strickland says something like, "I've never made that shot before and I shoot straighter than a Martian."

After beating Archer hill-hill in another Sands Regency match, Johnny's wife is talking to Archer and gesturing towards Earl. Must not have been too complimentary, because Strickland says to her, "Why don't you just shut up?" Archer can be heard off-camera replying, "Why don't YOU shut up?"
 
VARick said:
Pretty darn close, Matt. He's playing Sigel at the Sands and while retrieving the balls and rolling them down table for Mike to rack, he says, "My opponent has NEVER made an out like that...for me it's routine."

In the same match, he makes a strong safety and, pointing at his head, says, "Knowledge, knowledge."

In the post-match interview after Efren made the famous double bank kick (Z-shot) against him, Strickland says something like, "I've never made that shot before and I shoot straighter than a Martian."

After beating Archer hill-hill in another Sands Regency match, Johnny's wife is talking to Archer and gesturing towards Earl. Must not have been too complimentary, because Strickland says to her, "Why don't you just shut up?" Archer can be heard off-camera replying, "Why don't YOU shut up?"

That Martian comment is really funny. At the world 14.1 I was sitting next to John Schmidt who was describing someone's game as: "Playing like a f'ing alien." Not sure what it is about playing like an alien that's so funny, but that had me giggling for days. Pool players come up with the most peculiar sh*t.:)
 
SpiderWebComm said:
That Martian comment is really funny. At the world 14.1 I was sitting next to John Schmidt who was describing someone's game as: "Playing like a f'ing alien." Not sure what it is about playing like an alien that's so funny, but that had me giggling for days. Pool players come up with the most peculiar sh*t.:)


It's not the aliens that are funny. It's the COLOR of the aliens that's funny.
Doug
( and Green is funnier that BLUE...... imo )
 
1. This game is a curse to man....

2. Earl is talking about growing up in the tobacco fields and every afternoon would go to this little station where he played on a pool table. One older man asked him why he shot pool every afternoon and Earl said..."I'm going to shoot myself out of these leaves"!
 
As told to me by another player who said he witnessed it:

Earl is playing in a tournament on the Florida tour in the mid 80s and is complaining about his cue having too much deflection. He misses a shot and break the cue over his knee, throws it into the garbage and grabs a cue off the wall to finish his match. Bob Meucci is sitting there and says to Earl, This cue I made doesn't have deflection, give it a try. Earl takes the cue and starts playing with it. A few games later he misses a shot, and breaks the butt of the cue over his knee. He walks back to Bob and hands him the cue and says, "Now it doesn't have any deflection!"
 
A couple of months ago Earl was in Athens, GA. for a tourney and when he got there he was warming up and started getting "chatty" right away. He turned and told the people sitting there watching him "..if they would raise the playing surface of the table just 3 inches, we could eliminate ALL of the Phillipino players...". Those are his words, not mine. I hope no one is offended by me posting this....its just related to the thread topic.

Southpaw
 
jay helfert said:
At the World Eight Ball in Vegas back in the late 90's. Earl is playing Tang, who makes a great comeback to beat Earl 8-7. Every time the crowd applauded for another excellent Tang run out, Earl got more upset.

At the conclusion of the match, he leaned over the rail and leered at one member of Tang's entourage, "You think I'm an asshole, don't you."

The audience member's response, "Right now, you are." All who heard this line broke out in laughter.

Should we guess who that audience member was? :D
JoeyA
 
John Barton said:
"If this guy beats me with that cue I'll swim home" Said during a World Chamionship match in the early 90's when his opponent was playing with a weirdly decorated cue. Who knew what Earl would be using a decade later? I wonder if BJ thought the same thing.

"Quit moving Ralf" - said while NOT looking at Ralf Souquet (who is a statue when sitting) at a Challenge of Champions match between them.

JOhn, I heard another story that Ralf was indeed moving, I think stretching his neck to see Earl shoot. I wish this was on youtube.com.
JoeyA
 
uwate said:
As told to me by another player who said he witnessed it:

Earl is playing in a tournament on the Florida tour in the mid 80s and is complaining about his cue having too much deflection. He misses a shot and break the cue over his knee, throws it into the garbage and grabs a cue off the wall to finish his match. Bob Meucci is sitting there and says to Earl, This cue I made doesn't have deflection, give it a try. Earl takes the cue and starts playing with it. A few games later he misses a shot, and breaks the butt of the cue over his knee. He walks back to Bob and hands him the cue and says, "Now it doesn't have any deflection!"

This is hilarious! :p
 
I saw him once blame the ceiling fan for blowing his ball off line! LOL!!
He asked me one time if i wanted to learn how to play pool...so of course i was excited about him asking and thinking he would actually take time with me but his response was" well if you want ot learn then sit right there in that chair and watch the greatest to ever play the game" LOL!!
I then asked him since i would get to shoot anyway could i rackem' for him and he said sure kid....that's what most people do when they play me anyway....lol!!!
 
As told to me by another player who said he witnessed it:

Earl is playing in a tournament on the Florida tour in the mid 80s and is complaining about his cue having too much deflection. He misses a shot and break the cue over his knee, throws it into the garbage and grabs a cue off the wall to finish his match. Bob Meucci is sitting there and says to Earl, This cue I made doesn't have deflection, give it a try. Earl takes the cue and starts playing with it. A few games later he misses a shot, and breaks the butt of the cue over his knee. He walks back to Bob and hands him the cue and says, "Now it doesn't have any deflection!"

there's been some good ones in this thread so far, but that's the best!
 
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