Ruining Life Quotes by John Virgo

I don't like tea that's too sweet.

— John Virgo

You can't be giggling and joking when you miss a shot in the modern game - not like the way when Ray Reardon used…

— John Virgo

I don't mind cheese with a nice glass of port, but I prefer chocolate.

— John Virgo

Cricket had John Arlott, Wimbledon had Dan Maskell, we had Ted Lowe. He was great.

— John Virgo

When I started playing all the players were trying to sell the game of snooker. Nowadays the prize money is so great, competing in…

— John Virgo

I was born in March 1946, almost exactly 10 months after V-E Day, so I imagine my parents got carried away when peace was declared.

— John Virgo

It's a different world now and as we see with footballers and everybody else, and the fall from grace of any sportsman, it's a…

— John Virgo

When the results weren't coming on the snooker table, I tried to supplement things by gambling on horses even more.

— John Virgo

I grew up on a street that's similar to the ones you used to see in Coronation Street on TV. We had an outside…

— John Virgo

The game really started in 1969 with Pot Black, but in 1970, along came Alex Higgins and the game took off.

— John Virgo

I get the 'Daily Mirror,' purely and simply because they put the Racing Post prices in.

— John Virgo

I have never invested directly in stocks and shares. That's never been my type of speculation.

— John Virgo

The worst time was in 1985 when house prices crashed and interest rates went up to 14 percent. I was not winning on the…

— John Virgo

Particularly now with social media, you only need to turn round and someone will have a camera in your face and occasionally someone will…

— John Virgo

I remember that if you went down to the Crucible or other snooker tournaments it was all the snooker writers, and then all of…

— John Virgo