I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games. — Thelonious Monk
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. — Herbert Spencer
I like to play snooker, golf as well. — John Terry
If there are no more tournaments added I could be looking at playing pool. Why not? You don’t want to be sat at home twiddling your fingers all day. — Stephen Hendry
In snooker, it’s very important to keep very still on the shot and allow the cue to do the work. — Stephen Hendry
Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been. — Stephen Hendry
When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed. — Stephen Hendry
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. — Juan Manuel Fangio
The tip I would give is that once you play the shot, make sure your chin is touching the cue after you hit the cue ball. — Stephen Hendry
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. — Sylvester Stallone
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right. — Clive James
Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand. — Ted Lowe
Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English. — Jane Kaczmarek
The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. Ive never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker. — Ronnie O'Sullivan
Short Playing Pool Quotes
Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt. — Sam Snead
Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield. — Richard Caborn
Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. — Jack Lemmon
Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it. — Dan Quayle
Play the hand you're dealt. — Jawaharlal Nehru
You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. — Lee Trevino
Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting. — Peter Dobereiner
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. — Douglas William Jerrold
Playing Pool Image Quotes
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
Pool Table Quotes
I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table. — Jimi Hendrix
All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign! — Chace Crawford
Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau. — Tony Curtis
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict. — Brad Garrett
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. — Janet Fitch
Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table. — Leo Durocher
Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.
If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.' — Chi McBride
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. — Stephen Jay Gould
Billiard Quotes
There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person. — Helen Fielding
The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace. — William Tecumseh Sherman
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
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. — H. L. Mencken
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. — Ernest Hemingway
Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue. — Huey Long
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes difference.
Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls. — Walker Percy
Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think. — Roald Hoffmann
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. — Mother Teresa
Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. — Stephen Leacock
My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass'. I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that. — Jamie Foxx
I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve. — Xavier Cugat
Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement. — Jessica Valenti
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. — Sigmund Freud
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was. — Daniel Negreanu
We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright. — Bruce Springsteen
'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background. — Mark Hoppus
Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sellp-song on our roof at night-
And I love the rain. — Langston Hughes
Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians. — Bill Toomey
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. — Geoffrey Rush
A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?” “Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates. — Devon Monk
..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his— — Claire LaZebnik
Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family’s pool, back when we were both seven, or I’ll know you’re an alien replacement and you’ve got the real Steph up in your mother ship!” I glared at him. “G.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie,” I said. “And stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. We’re going to end up at a bad table for lunch. — Meg Cabot
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays — Jeanette Winterson
Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool. — Michael Phelps
I love to play pool. — Dante Hall
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. — Gilbert White
Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool. — Michelle Obama
I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I feel like you lean in to tell a joke. You don't back up. Comedy lives in that area. I've played amphitheaters, big clubs, and pool halls, and the most fun rooms hold anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people. That intimacy is where comedy really lives. — Michael Che
Whether you're playing a mom on-screen or you're in a car pool lane driving your child to school in the morning, there are similarities that are undeniable. And once you're a mother, there are certain things that are instinct. You just have a better understanding of what it means to be a mother. — Nia Long
I don't want to jump the gun. I don't want to talk about that. There's a lot of dirty pool played at the election, meaning the election is rigged. — Donald Trump
I would give the cameras to the kids in the swimming pools and they would play with them, and then I would collect them and we would upload it. If you're in the process, you're there. — Barry Levinson
Just go to a bar, watch football - that's fun to me because I've not gotten to see anything because I've been travelling so much. Playing some shuffleboard and some pool and darts. I like kind of dive-y bars. — Miles Teller
If I find the right character, I don't care if it's a film, a television show or a play, I'm gonna do it. Everybody crosses over and it's just one big pool of stuff now. — Jaimie Alexander
My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in his studio, going over the pages and looking out the window at my kids playing in his swimming pool . — Mike Royer
Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens. — Deepak Chopra
I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me. — Henry Rollins
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents. — Mary Renault
I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years. — Alan Tudyk
I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool. — Rod Stewart
As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined. — Abbi Glines
When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions. — Rudolf Wanderone
My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do. — Steve Blake
A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax. — Ryan Seacrest
Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes and your mouth that has the smile of the water. A black yearning sun is braided into the strands of your black mane, when you stretch your arms. You play with the sun as with a little brook and it leaves two dark pools in your eyes. — Pablo Neruda
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