“I was doing commentary for the BBC and had exhibition work but if you'...” — John Virgo Quote

I was doing commentary for the BBC and had exhibition work but if you're not winning you are not earning as much. And when you're seen as a successful sportsman, people assume you're earning a good living. There was pressure on me to have the newest car, a more expensive holiday. It was all about keeping up appearances.

The game really started in 1969 with Pot Black, but in 1970, along came Alex Higgins and the game took off.

I get the 'Daily Mirror,' purely and simply because they put the Racing Post prices in.

When I started playing all the players were trying to sell the game of snooker. Nowadays the prize money is so great, competing in tournaments is no laughing matter.

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.

No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.