“Ronnie is the greatest player to have ever picked up a snooker cue. Pe...” — Jimmy White Quote

“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.”

“Ding has a fantastic all-round game. His temperament is also at a very high level.”

“I like the hypnosis. Nothing too deep - just enough to keep me clearer and more focused.”

“I love life.”

“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.”

“I did abuse the game a bit because I didn't give it the respect sometimes.”

“I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.”

“Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.”

“If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.”

“I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.”

“Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.”

“Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.”