Steve Davis Retires from Snooker

GideonF

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Steve Davis has just announced his retirement from professional snooker. Below is a link to his press conference.

Among other interesting bits from the press conference, Davis said he wanted to thank the anonymous person at BBC who decided to show the entirety of the world championships on TV. He said that without that decision, snooker would still be just a club game.

He also mentions that among his career highlights was LOSING the world championship to Dennis Taylor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Borcrhfc3xQ

I think the whole thing is worth a listen.

Gideon
 
GideonF said:
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He also mentions that among his career highlights was LOSING the world championship to Dennis Taylor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Borcrhfc3xQ

I think the whole thing is worth a listen.

Gideon
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It certainly is.

He also mentions how sweet it was to win when he wasn't supposed to. The match of his that I remember was in the World 9-Ball Championships when he came back from 2-8 behind to Efren Reyes to win 9-8. He wasn't supposed to win that one.
 
A true gentleman of the game. In my eyes he's a better champion than Hendry--Hendry loved winning, but Steve loved snooker. My favourite memories of Steve was him beating then-champion John Higgins in the 2010 World Championship, as well as beating Strickland to win the 2002 Mosconi Cup for Team Europe.

Most, if not all, snooker players base their fundamentals from Steve's technique. I'd go so far as to say that he even influenced, to a much lesser extent, how pool players approached their own technique.

An utterly dominant force in his prime. Imagine if Steve went stateside in the 80s/90s to play serious championship pool! How could he have fared against the likes of Mizerak, Sigel, Strickland and Reyes?



"So why didn’t the top snooker players come over to America and play? Thank God they didn’t. If Jimmy White, Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry did, they would have handed the Americans their heads, wiped them off the face of the Earth."

- "Fast Larry" Guninger
 
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This should be a bigger story. One of the greatest players of any form of pocket billiards of all time.
 
A great ambassador of the game, and not just snooker but all cuesports. He is also a gentlemen, always generous with his time and advice.
 
Steve Davis, IMO, is the most sanest and honest of all the great snooker players.
...the best of three world champions named Davis (no relation to Joe Or Fred)

I feel the team of Hearn and Davis rivaled that of Elvis and the Colonel...relatively.

strangely, in the 80s, he felt that you couldn't transmit 'side'....a weakness many of the old-time champions had...I got a feeling that playing some pool changed his mind.
 
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