Balls Quote by Clive James Download Open image “Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.” — Clive James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Balls Chess Rude
Snooker's never going to be that. It's never going to be a worldwide game like tennis and golf. It's never going to happen. — Judd Trump Copy Share Image
I just love playing snooker. Every single frame is different. Not one referee ever sets the balls up exactly the same. — Alex Higgins Copy Share Image
Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield. — Richard Caborn Copy Share Image
“Games as spectator sport - if snooker warrants televising, I fail to see why Super Monkey Ball or Ikaruga does not. Apparently” — James Newman Copy Share Image
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Believe me, I feel the same way now about snooker as I did when I was 13. — Jimmy White Copy Share Image
My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London… — Clive James Copy Share Image
In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it… — Clive James Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked By various diseases of the intellect Or failing body. How am I still upright? And even I sleep half the day, cough half the night. How did it come to this? How else but through The course of years, and what its workings do To wood, stone, glass and almost… — clive james Copy Share
Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction. — Alex Smith Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share
Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent… — Andrea Tantaros Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional political playbook in destroying and attacking a political opponent is not gonna work on Trump, because Trump's connection with his supporters or his audience is far deeper and far greater than most voters' connection with a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share
Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the… — Darryl Dawkins Copy Share
Maybe bring in sponge balls to learn the technique and gain that experience of actually challenging for a header. — Ryan Mason Copy Share Image
I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
