Your favourite Earl Strickland quotes

Roy Steffensen

Roy Steffensen

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Thought it could be really fun to get all Strickland-quotes in one thread! Good or bad, bring them on!

My favourite was from one of the World Championships. He was going for the winning 9, and you could see that there was a woman among the spectators in skirt right in his aimlingline. He was about to shoot, then he stood up, said: "Don't spread your legs now", and then went on to finish the shot.

Also: "I am so good I can even win with this cue" (About Cuetec)

Some Strickland-quotes from Interpool Open, Sweden, in 2005:

"Soft players are toy players"

"You know what they say: they say I'm a borderline between genius and schizophrenic!"

"Hey, hey, hey! I don't want you touching the one-ball!" (Opponent racking
"You know who invented that? I sure as hell didn't. I tell you who invented that: Mika Immonen invented that shit.! -paus- "And Corey Deuel."

"I don't want you throwing the balls! Don't give me the balls if you're gonna throw the balls!" (Earl lost a game and the opponent "throws" the ball to Earl.) "If you're gonna throw the balls - throw them like this!" (Earl demonstrates how to do it properly).

"Now you know why I'm mad all the time! Because of people like that.... - paus - ... they don't even get it" (Earl about the spectors). The morning after, Sunday at 10, with no specators he said that this was how he liked it.

"In no other sport do the players keep the score!" (Earl forgot to change the score from 7 to 8)

"Tiger Woods gets paid for this, you know!" (Earl writing autographs)

"I thought it was a race to eleven - you should have stipulated that! Of all the talking you did - you didn't say that" (Earl to the tournament director. He didn't know he had won when he reached 9.)

"You can blame me. Everone else does." (His opponent is missing a shot.)
 
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Earl was playing Ralf Souquet on the TV table at the US Open and Ralf was taking a long time between shots and it was getting to Earl pretty badly and Earl looked at the crowd and said "You know it takes this guy 3 hours to watch 60 Minutes he's so slow!". Ralf was walking around the table and looking at every possible shot and angle on every shot and it was totally knocking Earl out of his game.
 
I remember another one. He played a guy who could really do jumpshots really well, and had done a few against Earl.

After Earl really locked him up on a safe, he said to him: "Jump that, sucker" (Or something like that)
 
the one i heard that sticks out is no where near as good as those but here goes.
"that efren. he's got alllll the luck"
-earl the pearl
 
Here's a couple of Earl's pearls from his last match:

(Credit to Dead Poked)

Earl talking about the railbirds:

"I'd rather be in Baghdad getting bombed than this place! Maybe all these idiots should be in Baghdad. They'd make great insurgents..."

And later:

"I'm unlucky f'n 99% of the time"
 
" I Wasn't always like this, they made me this way. " (referring to the pool clique).
 
"I am an a**hole"

Jimmyleggs immitating Earl:D

(Jimmyleggs thinks he is a great player but as a human being.....no comment,I have my opinion,you have yours.Lets keep it that way)
 
Best quote ever from THE PEARL (VARick, correct me if I get this one wrong)

After a tough out....

"my opponent rarely makes an out like that but for me it's routine."
 
Earl's looking at a tournament board to see who he plays next, someone unknown. Another bystander says, "Who's that guy?"

Earl says, "I dunno but someone better tell him to put on his bullet-proof vest."
 
At the Mosconi cup: (rattles a shot) "oh what the F***" (commentators trip over their dicks trying to cover up)
 
I remember reading these few years ago Strickland and Chamat are going to play tennis: Chamat "Hey man can you really play with that belly?" Strickland "shut up you little dwarf your mouth is bigger than your body" lol
 
Several years ago at the trade show in Vegas Earl was doing a trick shot exibition. When done he asked if anyone had any questions. There were a 100 or so spectators. I simply asked "hey Earl if you play with an off the wall Cuetec like the ad says in the magazine, then why is your shaft blue...it has no fiberglass coating".:D He came straight up to me sticking his cue toward my face like a sword and said "listen here mf'er don't ask any questions when it concerns my finances". He was mumbling something about my mother as he walked off. I was shocked he used that language with several children present. A talented individual indeed but I lost all repect for him at that moment. Yes I was wrong...but he could of handled it much better in front of the fans & kids.:rolleyes: That was the first of many Earl explosions I've witnessed over the years....all pretty much unnecessary.
 
When playing Efren and Busta with Rodney as his partner in the World Cup I believe: "These filipinos are the luckiest pool players I have ever seen." Might not be his exact words but very close to it.
 
I walk by Earl holding court in Jacksonville this year and just hear this ".....we should play pool without any side pockets....."

I kept right on going.
 
Roy Steffensen said:
Thought it could be really fun to get all Strickland-quotes in one thread! Good or bad, bring them on!

My favourite was from one of the World Championships. He was going for the winning 9, and you could see that there was a woman among the spectators in skirt right in his aimlingline. He was about to shoot, then he stood up, said: "Don't spread your legs now", and then went on to finish the shot.

Also: "I am so good I can even win with this cue" (About Cuetec)

Some Strickland-quotes from Interpool Open, Sweden, in 2005:

"Soft players are toy players"

"You know what they say: they say I'm a borderline between genius and schizophrenic!"

"Hey, hey, hey! I don't want you touching the one-ball!" (Opponent racking
"You know who invented that? I sure as hell didn't. I tell you who invented that: Mika Immonen invented that shit.! -paus- "And Corey Deuel."

"I don't want you throwing the balls! Don't give me the balls if you're gonna throw the balls!" (Earl lost a game and the opponent "throws" the ball to Earl.) "If you're gonna throw the balls - throw them like this!" (Earl demonstrates how to do it properly).

"Now you know why I'm mad all the time! Because of people like that.... - paus - ... they don't even get it" (Earl about the spectors). The morning after, Sunday at 10, with no specators he said that this was how he liked it.

"In no other sport do the players keep the score!" (Earl forgot to change the score from 7 to 8)

"Tiger Woods gets paid for this, you know!" (Earl writing autographs)

"I thought it was a race to eleven - you should have stipulated that! Of all the talking you did - you didn't say that" (Earl to the tournament director. He didn't know he had won when he reached 9.)

"You can blame me. Everone else does." (His opponent is missing a shot.)
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My favorite has to be after Earl got knocked out of the BC Open in Binghamton NY and he looked at the prize payouts and what he had coming. He laughed and said his clothing cleaning bill every week was more than that. He got something like $350.00 for where he finished. Dam i miss that tournament. Rest in Peace Gary Pinkowski. (the promoter and all around nice guy) You deserve it my friend............mike
 
A previous poster quoted a few of the quotes I overheard watching Earl last Sunday. Another that I took from that great evening....

"If I was that IPT guy I would stiff them too. They don't deserve it."
 
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