– Excuses
– Gambling
– Grip
– Strategy
– Stroke
– Winning
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Aiming and Shot Making
- Aim while standing, not while shooting.
- Just don’t miss.
- Where you look is where the ball will go.
- Percentages don’t matter if you make the shot.
- Never ever chalk your cue tip prior to a miscue.
- Don’t put too much “English” on the ball (i.e., never use more sidespin than is required for a shot). … and … Don’t put too much “American” on the ball (i.e., never use more speed than is required for a shot).
- Hit a Million Balls (HAMB) is the only fool-proof “aiming system.”
Break
- Don’t use more power than you can control.
- Squat the rock after the break (i.e., leave the CB in the center of the table to have the most options after the break).
Cue Ball Control
- Draw for show … follow for the dough. … or … Draw for flash … follow for cash.
- There’s nothing worse than good position if you miss the shot.
- If you already have position, don’t play for it.
- Don’t try to get perfect shape when good shape will do (i.e., just take what is offered).
- Center ball can do it all, and the center of the table is your friend.
- Take care of your cue ball and it will take care of you.
- Let one finger stay and the other will point the way. (concerning the 30° rulepeace-sign technique)
Defense
- The best offense is sometimes a good defense.
- Keep your soldiers on the table (don’t clear your balls in 8-ball until you are ready to run out).
- Playing a tough shot is better than playing a tough safety.
- A “real man” doesn’t play safe unless he wants to win.
Excuses
- It’s not the cue … it’s you. It’s not the arrow … it’s the Indian.
- Don’t cry in your beer, it will just get diluted.
Gambling
- Never give a sucker an even game.
- Never gamble with a man named after a City or a State.
- If you can’t find the one being hustled in the pool room, it’s you.
- Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
- A penny saved is a penny earned. [Benjamin Franklin] … and … A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
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Grip
- Hold the cue in your hand like a bird … don’t crush it to death, but also don’t let it go.
- The grip should be like shaking a lady’s hand. Don’t crush it, and don’t be weak and limp wristed.
- Don’t grip it and rip it (use a light and relaxed grip and smoothly accelerating stroke).
- Don’t use a “death grip” on the cue.
Instruction
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. [Confucious]
- You don’t know what you don’t know. Or, if you knew what you didn’t know, you wouldn’t not know it.
- Give a man a fish … feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish … feed him for life. [Anne Ritchie]
- He who seeks shall find. [Matthew in The Bible]
- A good teacher is one who listens and learns. The same can be said for a student.
- Information is not knowledge.
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. [Benjamin Franklin]
- Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it. [Benjamin Franklin]
- When you finish changing, you’re finished. [Benjamin Franklin]
- Don’t believe everything you hear and read. Do what works best for you. Different strokes for different folks.
- Those who can’t play teach.
Life
- Pool is my life. My girlfriend is my hobby.
- Life is tough, but it sure beats the alternative. … and … If you’re going through hell, keep going.
- Don’t sweat the small stuff … and it’s all small stuff. [Richard Carlson]
- Action speaks louder than words.
- Life is short. Live today as if there is no tomorrow.
- The only things certain in life are death and taxes. [Benjamin Franklin]
- Don’t judge a book by its cover. … and … Nothing is as easy as it seems. … and … Nothing is a difficult as it seems.
- Honesty is the best policy. [Aesop]
- The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence.
- It only takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch.
- When you come to a fork in the road, take it. [Yogi Berra]
- Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. [Confucious]
Mental Side
- The game is 90% mental. The other half is physical. [Yogi Berra]
- Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. [Mark Twain]
- Sports do not build character. They reveal it. [Heywood Broun]
- It ain’t over till its over. [Yogi Berra]
- Without trust, your game goes bust. … and … To succeed, you must first believe you can. [Nikos Kazantzakis]
- The secret to getting ahead is getting started. [Mark Twain]
- The fancy crowd-pleasing shot is for them … the shot after is for me.
- Do not dwell in the past. If you do, history tends to repeat itself.
- Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. [Winston Churchill]
- A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. [Albert Einstein]
- If at first you don’t succeed … try, try, try again. [William Hickson] … and … Never, never, never give up.
- The glass is half full, not half empty. … and … Every cloud has a silver lining. [John Milton]
Practice
- The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. [ Vince Lombardi]
- Practice makes perfect, especially perfect practice. Imperfect practice makes permanent.
- The more I practice, the luckier I get. [Jerry Barber]
- Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. [Thomas Edison] … and … There is no substitute for hard work.
- Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. [Gordon Hinckley]
- By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. [Benjamin Franklin]
- Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [Albert Einstein]
- Amateurs practice a shot until they make it. Pros practice it until they can’t miss.
Quotes About Gamers
Shot Selection
- There are several shots, but only one right one.
- If you take care of the simple ones, the hard ones take care of themselves.
- There’s always a shot … you just have to find it.
Strategy
- I’d rather be lucky than good. [Lefty Gomez]
- Think long … think wrong. Don’t suffer from Analysis Paralysis.
- Make every easy shot, and make every shot easy.
- Ignorance is bliss (don’t over think things). [Thomas Gray]
- Take what’s offered (i.e., don’t get fancy if it’s not required).
- Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS). [US Navy]
- Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Don’t try to run out unless you can. … and … Don’t move balls if you don’t need to.
Stroke
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- Stroke it, don’t poke it.
- If you don’t stroke straight you shouldn’t aim straight.
- Don’t be a jerk (with your transition from the backstroke to the forward stroke).
- Let your cue do the work.
Winning
- It’s not the will to win that matters — everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. [Paul “Bear” Bryant]
- Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. [Vince Lombardi] … and … Failure is not an option.
- Winning is a habit; unfortunately, so is losing. [Vince Lombardi]
- The easiest way to win is to not let the other guy shoot.
- It is easier to have fun when you are winning.
- Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser. [Vince Lombardi]
- To be a good loser is to learn how to win. [Carl Sandburg]
- When it means everything, play as if it means nothing.
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
- I would rather play a gloating winner than a sobbing loser.
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Life is more fun if you play games. ~Roald Dahl
You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps. ~Author Unknown
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said 'Mate!' in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious. ~A.A. Milne, Not That It Matters, 1919
It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans. ~Robert Lynd
Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right. ~Clive James
Life's too short for chess. ~Henry James Byron, Our Boys, 1874
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ~Henry Louis Mencken
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. ~Charles Lamb
Games lubricate the body and the mind. ~Benjamin Franklin
With spots quadrangular of diamond form,
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,
And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
~William Cowper
'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,
Where destiny with men for pieces plays;
Hither and thither, and mates, and slays.
~Edward Fitzgerald
The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. ~Stephen Sondheim
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. ~Author Unknown
Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Our whole life is solving puzzles. ~Erno Rubik
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. ~Amar Gopal Bose
“All the world's a game,
And men and women merely Billiard-players.
SHAKESPEARE (a little altered).”
~Captain Crawley (George Frederick Pardon, 1824–1884), The Billiard Book, 1866
As a game of mingled skill and chance, Billiards stands at the head of what may be called Indoor Athletics. Requiring far less mental exertion than Chess.. it provides amusement for the mind, it also affords exercise for the body. ~Captain Crawley (George Frederick Pardon, 1824–1884), The Billiard Book, 1866
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many seven-letter words have five i's. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ~Joseph de Maistre
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
Video games ruined my life. (Good thing I have two more.) ~Author Unknown
I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital, could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery. This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times.' ~Demetri Martin
If I've learned anything from video games, it's what when you meet enemies it means you're going in the right direction. ~Author Unknown
When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad. ~Tom Bissell
Things are falling into place like a well organised game of Tetris. ~Jay Mullings
I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already? ~Joel Salatin
An apocryphal story — the word 'apocryphal' here means 'obviously untrue' — tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented. ~Lemony Snicket
Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse. ~Don Addis
There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games. ~Ernest Hemingway
The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
At my house, when a missing pawn shows up in the Scrabble tiles, it counts as an extra blank. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. ~George Bernard Shaw
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