What's the biggest compliment anyone has said about your game.

Black Cat 5791 said:
I was out shooting Thursday, and after league was over I hung out for awhile and put in some extra practice. After finishing I was about to leave and I was saying my goodbye's when a wannabe made a comment to the guy I was talking to, "Man that guy shoots like a Robot, 1 ball after another bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop" the guy I was talking to replied yeah but he's good as hell.

My first reaction was that it was an insult, then it hit me I must be good enough that people are really noticing. Hmm........

Black Cat :cool:
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Funnily enough, all my bestest compliments have been received after I've lost:

Lou loses 2-3 to Leil Gay, 2001 DCC:

"You were the better player this match, I didn't deserve to win."

Lou Loses 2-3 to Dallas West, 2000 DCC:

"I really like your game. I was lucky to beat you."

Lou loses 2-4 to Efren, 2000 US Open 1Pocket:

"Louis bank good. Miss straight in."

Lou Figueroa
why does it always
work that way?
 
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While playing against Willie Munson's championship team at the U.S. Open in Milwaukee in 1974, one of Willie's teammates remarked about my game, "Man that guy shoots slow", to which Willie replied, "Yeah, but he runs about every rack, too!"
 
They always enjoy playing against me because it is a sure win.


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When I had been back in the game for about 6 months, after a 25 year lay off. I played against CJ Wiley in a local weekly 9 ball tournament. It's a weighted tournament. He had to win 7 games. I had to win only 4. I played way over my head and got my 4 first. CJ said "if you are a 4. I am Santa Clause." Haven't played that well since. To make it even sweeter I had just started making pool cues and beat him with a cue of my own making.

Larry
 
Just last week i played a former pool room owner. I had to bank the 8 & then the 9 to get out.The 9 was in the kitchen and the CB center bottom. I didn't call the shot but it was pretty obvious and we were playing for fun. The 9 shot straight in after it came off the rail.
He kept ragging, "jokingly" at me for not calling the shot and then set up the shot again which i banked again. He shook his head and called me a hustler.LOL
I consider myself average at best so this was a big compliment.


You should stay down on your shots.
 
Compliment

Fred Owen, a local businessman and bigtime gambler that some on this site surely remember, once called me "190 pounds of heart." Made me feel good, though it's more like 230 lbs now:smile:
 
After stringing a 5 pack playing king of the hill 9 ball with a couple of friends including a local legend, Lefty Bennett, Lefty walked up to me and said "you honestly don't LOOK like you could make a ball"...... I play faster than most anyone I have met and have heard the same thing several times since. LOL
 
Andy Craig told me I was the best shot maker he had ever seen (this from a guy that has played some of the greatest snooker players in the world). I then proceeded to convince him otherwise.

Mark Wilson commented that if I was "on", nobody could beat me. I probably convinced him otherwise as well.

Shannon Daulton said.... "you almost won this set." :rolleyes:
 
Black Cat 5791 said:
I was out shooting Thursday, and after league was over I hung out for awhile and put in some extra practice. After finishing I was about to leave and I was saying my goodbye's when a wannabe made a comment to the guy I was talking to, "Man that guy shoots like a Robot, 1 ball after another bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop" the guy I was talking to replied yeah but he's good as hell.

My first reaction was that it was an insult, then it hit me I must be good enough that people are really noticing. Hmm........

Black Cat :cool:
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I have been told on occasion that I look like Efren when I stroke the balls.

Unfortunately, that's where the similarities end....:(
 
A while back while I lived in Nebraska, Randy G. and a couple of instructors had come to our local pool hall to give some lessons. I was playing with a friend on one of the tables away from where the lessons were, when this gentleman came up to me and told me that he'd been watching me and wanted to know if I would play him some. My friend said it was ok with her since I was kicking her butt anyways. So the guy tells me that he wants to play a race to 7. I don't know who this old guy is and start to wonder if I'm about to be shark bait to a guy that came here with Randy G's crew. So I ask the room owner if he knew who the old man was and he told me yes, that gentleman is known as The Monk and he's widely known in the pool world. Problem was that he didn't know what he played like.

So what the heck, I'm not a bad player so I ask him how much he had in mind playing for? He said he just wanted to play, but not for any cash. I said okay. I didn't want to seem like a punk, so I go all out like we're playing for a grand. He gives me the break and I start out on fire. I put a 4 pack on him in no time. Got in trouble the next rack and had to play safe. I got lucky and locked him tight. I get ball in hand and finish the set out 7-0! He's very impressed and asks me my name. After I tell him, he tells me "You control the cue ball like a pro! It's beautiful to watch." we play another set and although not as strong as the first set, I still finish it at 7-1. He asks me if I was there for the lessons and told him no, that I couldn't afford it. He went out to his RV and gave me a copy of one of his books. I thought I was hot stuff having just drilled this "Monk" fella and you could barely fit my head thru the door. Come to find out that he may be a guru with all his books and videos, but he really wasn't that good of a player. His strength I guess was in the mental side of the game.

Oh well, I still figured he may know what he's talking about, so I took that compliment anyway. Anyways that was back in the late 90's and I haven't won a match since! LOL
 
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" You ain't lucky man, You are good".

" Hell man, you could beat 90% of the people in here, no make that 98% of the people in here".
 
I think someone told me, "Nice shot", once. Can't remember who, may have been my mom, and she was probably just being nice...??? :embarrassed2:
 
I've been told by several people that I had one of the best strokes they had ever seen. The times that has happened it made me feel really good.

The best compliment however is as you get better and better the better and better players want to practice with you. It's sort of a vindication that you're getting good enough to provide a challenge to the better players.
 
The best comment I ever recieved about my game wasn't necassarily anything out of the ordinary as far as compliments go, however, it was WHO was saying it that made it special to me. When I was 18 I was playing in the VNEA AA division league and one night in particular we seemed to have almost every top league player of our area there including the then vegas masters team doom, who we happened to be playing that night. I started off the night strong running my first 2 racks, then half way through the 3rd one I had stopped and was remapping my run when behind me I heard one of the hands down best players around tell one of our local legends (Manual Gonzales) he says..."There is that kid Tyson I told you about watch how good he plays" and at that moment that was awesome but what made it even better is when Manuel said back to him "ya, ive heard a lot about him and seen him play he does play good". That right there was the best compliment I have ever recieved and it gave me some good confidence because I went on to run 2 more racks to make it a 3 ero and 1 table run night. Actually come to think about it, I dont know if he would remember or not because that night was probably not as significant to him as it was me, but one of our fellow AZers was subbing on our team that night, 12squared.
 
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