Great Sports Quotes That Could Apply To Pool

lfigueroa

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You've all heard them before:

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
Muhammad Ali

“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
Paul Bear Bryant

“Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
Yogi Berra

"I spent 90 percent of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted."
George Best

So Jim Bouton died recently. For those of you that don't know he was a pitcher with the Yankees and wrote "Ball Four" an inside look at baseball players behaving badly. His obit was in the Washington Post a few days ago:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.34b1915d0825

And it closed with the following line that I thought, with a small edit, would certainly apply to many of us:

“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a pool cue and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”

Anywhos, the line stuck with me and thought I'd share.

Lou Figueroa
 

Maniac

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Although not an original quote from him, "Dandy" Don Meredith used to say "It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings" during Monday Night Football telecasts back in the early 70's.

Certainly could apply to a pool match.

Maniac
 

Bob Jewett

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“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

There are lots of one pocket players who could benefit from this quote.
 

Runner

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"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard"
 
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sjm

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"Nice guys finish last" Leo Durocher

"The more I practice, the luckier I get" Jack Nicklaus

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be" Shakespeare

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." Vince Lombardi

"Win or lose, if you conduct yourself like a loser, you are a loser" my late father
 

Runner

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Second prize? A set of steak knives...
 

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Tin Man

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Love the inspiring quotes about preparation!!! Here are a couple that give me chills:


We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

The fight is won before it's fought.
 

deanoc

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You can spend your life playing a game that you find out
you know nothing about
Mickey Mantle on baseball
 

Bob Jewett

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“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” – Heywood Broun

(That was the father of Haywood Hale Broun who the older members may have seen in his sports commentaries on CBS.)
 

pt109

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We all know shotmakers whose knowledge of tactics could be written on the head of a pin.

“HE CAN RUN BUT HE CAN’T HIDE.”
Joe Louis
 

Poolhall60561

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“Don’t scratch em, I know em”

Not quite sure what this means but an old friend of mine would always say this as he was on he way to a scratch. Now It always crosses my mind when I’m about to scratch
 
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