103 Quotes by Jimmy White

If you've got to win ugly, do it.

I love playing O'Sullivan. It is a bit of a role reversal from when I used to play Alex Higgins.

Believe me, I feel the same way now about snooker as I did when I was 13.

I have been tamed. My party days are well and truly behind me.

I've had my dark days, but I wasn't really a hell-raiser as such.

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.

In the past it sometimes took me two or three rounds to get the adrenaline rush.

I have no regrets, I've had a fantastic life, travelled the world.

From having no money and coming from a very proud working class family, it was tough. But then all of a sudden we had loads and loads of cash. I realised that this was a great opportunity to do what I love for a living. I was going to tournaments up and down the country and I was able to win anything from five to seven thousand pounds.