George Miller Quotes

I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

I used to get money and hustle and do it in the streets.

I learnt the game as a kid hustling car dealers for cash.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

My mom was a championship pool player.

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

I love pool because it's a game of strategy, a game of the eye, and your whole universe is like this. I really want to become a pool shark.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

We're playing strip billiards.

The hustler from Chicago

I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.

I like to play pool. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win.

I've never played the game for money.

I don't suppose you offered to help?" "Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor." He knocked another ball into a hole. "You want to play?" "What? With you?" "No, with Clarence." He sighed at my dumbfounded look. "Yes, of course with me.

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.

Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start. Dru Anderson: I don’t want to deal with it today. Graves: Okay. I know a place to go. You shoot pool? I’m Graves. Dru Anderson: I know. Dru. Graves: Dru. You’re new. Couple of weeks, right? Welcome to Foley.

I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.

I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.