Jimmy White

If you've got to win ugly, do it.

— Jimmy White

Talent, it can become a trap.

— Jimmy White

I don't drink. Don't smoke.

— Jimmy White

My eyes are fine.

— Jimmy White

I play poker face to face.

— Jimmy White

I play golf but very badly.

— Jimmy White

I think boxing is a fantastic sport.

— Jimmy White

Certain styles of play take a bit longer.

— Jimmy White

I have always loved playing snooker.

— Jimmy White

I got to 16st when it became painful for me to walk.

— Jimmy White

I was introduced to the game by my father, Tommy, when I was 11.

— Jimmy White

I'm such an addictive personality that I can say yes or no.

— Jimmy White

Do I have any regrets about my life? No.

— Jimmy White

I never abused anybody but myself.

— Jimmy White

If I didn't think I could win the World Championship I would go and play golf badly in Spain.

— Jimmy White

Believe me, I feel the same way now about snooker as I did when I was 13.

— Jimmy White

I've been gambling since the age of 12. Horses, dogs, dice, roulette, you name it.

— Jimmy White

Some people take the view that I'm too laid back. Yet it's how I feel.

— Jimmy White

In the past I'd lose and not talk for a few days. I'd become strange. Difficult to live with.

— Jimmy White

In the past it sometimes took me two or three rounds to get the adrenaline rush.

— Jimmy White

I'm a supporter of Barry Hearn, I voted for him and will support him in whatever he wants to do.

— Jimmy White

Ronnie is a very clever winner. He will make sure that he does everything in his power to win the tournament. He…

— Jimmy White

I love Belfast, because of the way that people here love their snooker. And I won my first professional tournament here in…

— Jimmy White

Northern Ireland as a whole is a great snooker country because of Alex Higgins and Dennis Taylor and now of course there…

— Jimmy White

That's the hardest part of the game. You've got to stay focused. With golf, make a mistake and you get another shot…

— Jimmy White

That period in the late Eighties and early Nineties was when I was playing my best snooker. My trouble was that I…

— Jimmy White

Ronnie is the greatest player to have ever picked up a snooker cue. People have said that about me. But although I…

— Jimmy White

The best match I ever played in was the U.K. championship final against John Parrot in 1992. I won 16-14 and I…

— Jimmy White

Ronnie O'Sullivan, the greatest snooker player ever, will tell you that he doesn't practise. I'm not having that. I call him Roger,…

— Jimmy White

The trouble started when I won the world amateur title in 1980, aged 18. People began talking about me as the next…

— Jimmy White

From having no money and coming from a very proud working class family, it was tough. But then all of a sudden…

— Jimmy White

Within a day of wearing the insoles, my feet felt more comfortable, and a week later I was able to go for…

— Jimmy White

Snooker is not like boxing or football - you can go on longer.

— Jimmy White

I know sometimes I played to the crowd, and it did cost me.

— Jimmy White

The Queen is a true professional and calmly pinned my MBE on.

— Jimmy White

I've had my dark days, but I wasn't really a hell-raiser as such.

— Jimmy White

I have been tamed. My party days are well and truly behind me.

— Jimmy White

I like visiting new places where the game is opening up.

— Jimmy White

I have no regrets, I've had a fantastic life, travelled the world.

— Jimmy White

We earned any fans with the way we play.

— Jimmy White