Quotes that helped me...

Ronoh

1 brick at a time
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The quotes that follow are from great people. The only thing I did was change the subject of Math to Pool. I give full respect to the authors.

Creative billiardsman now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of billiards, rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

– Eric Temple Bell


The creative principle resides in billiards. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

– Albert Einstein


I am interested in billiards only as a creative art.

– Godfrey Harold Hardy


‘pool’ may well be a creative activity of man, like language or music, of primary originality . . .

– Hermann Weyl


The science of Pure Billiards, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

– Alfred North Whitehead


[Billiards] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

– William Wordsworth


Please, speak. Or dwell. Each has it's place.
 
Watcha' think about these short and sweet ones?!:

All is fair in Love & Pool/Pool & War
- unknown.

Come let us to billiards away
- William Shakespeare (no substitutions needed!)

Pool is all hell!!!
- William Tecumseh Sherman (Not very inspiring but often true!!!)
 
Times with [pool] and no money are better than times with money and no [pool]. --Fabulous Furry Freak Bros, ZAP Comics, 1970's.

Far out, man...:D

Jeff Livingston
 
transposed quotation

pool is a testing ground, a little larger than a chess board and a little smaller than life itself.


rodger bannister
 
Quotes

1. In Springfield Missouri the local 7 in APA (I forget the name). "Take what the table gives you." His point was it is better to make a hanger than to get beat with it sitting there.

2. On a terrible miscue, JR Calvert noted, "It's not the arrow, but the Indian". His point was that everyone blames the equipment, but is the players responsibility to chalk and make the hit.

3. In Terre Haute, a local old time hustler noted, "Make all the ones you have to make." His point was you can't make all of balls and all shots all the time, but there are shots you cannot miss and expect to win.

4. In Terre Haute, one of the better players and my cousin, said when he came back into the pool hall after an outta town tourneyment, " I was one out of the money." It was later found out that he went 2 and out and was about a mile out of the money. It has been a standard phase locally if you didnt place, you were "One out of the money".

These are the ones that come to mind.

LOL

Ken
 
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