Professional Players Quotes

I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.

It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.

Not many players have tables at home, they like going to a club and feeling like they're going to a place of work.

Nobody can really dominate like Stephen Hendry or Steve Davis. The players are just too good for that.

In the Champions League, you can focus on a single game and play in exactly the style you need.

Night tennis began at the United States Open in 1975 with certain stars trying to beg out and certain patrons trying to dump unwanted tickets on scalpers.

Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.

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.

I used to watch big guards and how they handled the ball and made plays. Guys like Joe Johnson.

I think what African football needs is better organization, better structure, and I think, after that, we'll help the players to be more professional when they're coming to play for their national team.

Snooker is a very good TV sport.

Players such as Gianluigi Buffon, Andrea Pirlo and Mirko Vucinic are all world-class.

To compete with the great teams in Europe, you have to invest money. There is no other way to reach that kind of level.

The thing with darts players is they have always appeared available. They don't have to live like monks. I've only ever met one dry player in 35 years.

The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.

I don't feel people are that interested in snooker any more and the only thing that will get snooker back into the limelight is more controversy.

I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

The quarter finals is always an exciting round because you know you're one match away from that one table situation: where the magic really starts to happen at the Crucible and where it starts to come into its own.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

The thing is, with century breaks, maximums, ranking tournaments, these sorts of things are automatically going to be broken: it's not if but when.

I have worked with some of the most important players, like Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Zidane, but the best are easy to work with because they are so professional. Their winning mentality, professionalism, helps the manager. Of course, sometimes I become angry, but usually my relationship with the players is calm.

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

Epic things happen in soccer.

As a kid, I used to go and wait at the gates of Melwood or look through the cracks in the wall just see if I could see any of the people I was looking up to, who we all wanted to aspire to become, when we were in the Champions League, the likes of Gerrard, Carragher and Alonso.