Quotes About Pool

Nine ... corner said:
…. and, of course, Joe's follow up. "Efren, you've got the eight."
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Awhile back, when Ginky was still around, I walked into Amsterdam Billiards in Manhattan and announced I'd spot him the 8 in one game of 9 ball for $100. He wasn't there, but if he had been I'd have donated the $100 just to be able to say I give Ginky the 8.

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pt109 said:
One of my favorites from U J Puckett....reading a newspaper in the early 70s...
...looks up and says “Richard Nixon, president of the Yew-nited States of America...
....and can’t hit the end rail!”
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One of y favorite UJ quotes was one I actually witnessed. Once in Tallahassee, He was there with a really young player and while the kid was in action, UJ was playing golf on the snooker table. At one point he said he was hooked. His opponent said "No, you can see it."

UJ looks at him like he's an idiot and says "Well ah KNOW ah kin SEE it, it's raught they-er ( while pointing at his ball )... but ahm SNEW-KERED!"

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Patrick Johnson said:
Awhile back, when Ginky was still around, I walked into Amsterdam Billiards in Manhattan and announced I'd spot him the 8 in one game of 9 ball for $100. He wasn't there, but if he had been I'd have donated the $100 just to be able to say I give Ginky the 8.

pj
chgo
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I used to love ABC when it was up by the park. Went in there tons of times.
 
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Dead balls are harder to find than they are to make.

Cicero Murphy.....via Blackjack Dave Sapolis
 
This is one of my favorite quotes.. Taken from the Honeymooners TV series.
Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton.. are going to play the game of straight pool.
After a coin toss argument, Ralph Kramden tells Ed Norton that he is stupid.
Norton breaks and scratches. Ralph then says to Ed, "I will show you the glorious results of a misspent youth"

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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
 
Uttered by many "Pool is and always will be a four letter word."

Lou Butera once commented after a poor effort "The last time I played this bad was never."

Boston Shorty said of an opponent he'd beaten "I shot him right between the eyes."

A fellow ran about 80 balls or so and out on a top player while the great Cisero Murphy was watching. Murphy then approached him and asked him to gamble. The fellow commented "You just watched me run 80 and out and you want to gamble with me?" Murphy's legendary reply was "Yeah, because you ran 'em wrong."

Mike Sigel was at the Mayfair Club in New York in the 1980's and played the club's best player a race to 100. Mike was in the process of running 100 and out. At about 75 or so, John Lindsay, former mayor of New York walked in and when Sigel completed his run, Lindsay was introduced to him. Lindsay commented "I hear you ran the whole 100, I wish I'd been here to see it." Sigel's famous reply was "You want me to do it again?"
 
9ball player in the pool room when I was @ 15 or so, after he dogged 3 straight in shots in a row:

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