“Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.” — Clive James Quote

“Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.”

“Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.”

“A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.”

“Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.”

“People talk about cold weather and it'd be tough to catch balls. But the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything. It's unbelievable. In the northern snowlands, down to the tropics' sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Where they throw a football, he'll be catching it.”

“The formula to beat the press is simple; it's the execution that's tough. If you have the quality to do so, you pass your way through it. And if you don't, you just boot it over the top. And then it becomes a game of winning 'second balls'.”