Top 55 Jimmy White Quotes

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People appreciate anyone who takes chances - they like

People appreciate anyone who takes chances – they like a bit of flair.
Jimmy White
Most gamblers do it for ego. It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about challenging your ego and showing your mates you’re fearless and will bet on anything.
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Everyone wants to be with someone.
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In the past I’d lose and not talk for a few days. I’d become strange. Difficult to live with.
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I never abused anybody but myself.
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We play Snooker Legends exhibitions and there is never a spare ticket.
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 felt like I could pot anything from anywhere.
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Ronnie is a very clever winner. He will make sure that he does everything in his power to win the tournament. He is super-fit.
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It meant so much to me lifting the Alex Higgins Trophy at Goffs.
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Ronnie Wood’s my good mate, I’m godfather to his twins.
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Ding has a fantastic all-round game. His temperament is also at a very high level.
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I like visiting new places where the game is opening up.
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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, after Federer, because he’s a genius. He doesn’t like that nickname.
Jimmy White
Golf and snooker are similar. They are ball games that you don’t have to be super fit for. It’s not like boxing or football when, at 35, you are on your way home.
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The thought of the weekends I used to have now makes me shake.
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If I didn’t think I could win the World Championship I would go and play golf badly in Spain.
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I like the hypnosis. Nothing too deep – just enough to keep me clearer and more focused.
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The trouble started when I won the world amateur title in 1980, aged 18. People began talking about me as the next star of the game. But I also started to get recognised more and I wasn’t prepared for it.
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I’ve played 8-ball in Hong Kong and I’m more knowledgeable with that than 9-ball.
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Ronnie is the greatest player to have ever picked up a snooker cue. People have said that about me. But although I won 50 or so tournaments I never picked up the world championship. That was a little bit of a disappointment.
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We earned any fans with the way we play.
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I play poker face to face.
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Snooker’s only popular in China now. Well China’s OK to go to once or twice a year but to go and play six or seven tournaments there is too much.
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I was mad-keen on poker as a kid. It was like the snooker, pulling me into that same smokey atmosphere I loved.
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Snooker still fascinates me and I still get a buzz from it.
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One of my great heroes was my brother. You couldn’t have dreamt of a better one.
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I was a big fan of Naseem Hamed, and followed him. Ronnie O’Sullivan, Stephen Hendry and I know him well.
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I was introduced to the game by my father, Tommy, when I was 11.
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I did abuse the game a bit because I didn’t give it the respect sometimes.
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I’m such an addictive personality that I can say yes or no.
Jimmy White
Testicular cancer occurs in young men, just the people who don’t bother much about their health.
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I have always loved playing snooker.

I have always loved playing snooker.
Jimmy White
The Queen is a true professional and calmly pinned my MBE on.
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I play golf but very badly.
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I was never a playboy but I was an out and about boy.
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I’m a supporter of Barry Hearn, I voted for him and will support him in whatever he wants to do.
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Not only did I have to face the great Steve Davis for 10 years, Stephen Hendry came along, who attacked the balls. He was such an incredible potter with self-belief.
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Listen, I could have won the World Championship. Obviously if I had the chance to do it all again I would do things differently. But then would I have still wanted to play?
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I love Belfast, because of the way that people here love their snooker. And I won my first professional tournament here in 1981. It was at the King’s Hall and I beat Doug Mountjoy in the final. That victory will always be pretty special for me.
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I don’t drink. Don’t smoke.
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My eyes are fine.
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On my 50th birthday the Rolling Stones played at my party at Grosvenor House. That’s not bad for a kid from Tooting.
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If you’re playing the best of 19, and it’s 7-7 and there’s only five frames left, you tend to take a few more chances.
Jimmy White
I have only prepared properly for the World Championship three or four times in my life. If I had gone about it professionally I would have won the title 10 times.
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I love playing O’Sullivan. It is a bit of a role reversal from when I used to play Alex Higgins.
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I think I should win every tournament I enter.
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In the past it sometimes took me two or three rounds to get the adrenaline rush.
Jimmy White
Within a day of wearing the insoles, my feet felt more comfortable, and a week later I was able to go for walks, play golf, and play football with my son, which I hadn’t for years. The insole is sculpted to the foot and manipulates it into the correct position, preventing damage to the plantar fascia tissue.
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I think boxing is a fantastic sport.
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Because I could do things on the snooker table that no other player could do, I just had this sort of self-destruct button in me.
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That period in the late Eighties and early Nineties was when I was playing my best snooker. My trouble was that I had so many bad habits that my preparation was terrible: people like Steve Davis or Dennis Taylor were model pros.
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I could be in Spain, spending my time playing bad golf; financially I don’t need to play snooker. I play because I love it.
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It sounds strange to be world champion at the Crucible.
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Snooker is not like boxing or football – you can go on longer.
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Over the years I have been in a lot of trouble but I’ve always managed to switch off and play.
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