Quotes by John Virgo - Page 1

I don't mind cheese with a nice glass of port, but I prefer chocolate.
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Cheese
Chocolate
Port
Prefer
Glass
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At the end of the day, life is a gamble, isn't it? A lot of it is sheer luck.
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Gamble
Luck
Sheer
Life End Of The Day Day
Life Is A
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Cricket had John Arlott, Wimbledon had Dan Maskell, we had Ted Lowe. He was great.
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Wimbledon
Dan
Ted
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I get the 'Daily Mirror,' purely and simply because they put the Racing Post prices in.
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Racing
Mirror
Post
Prices
Purely
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I have never invested directly in stocks and shares. That's never been my type of speculation.
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Speculation
Directly
Invested
Shares
Stocks
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The game really started in 1969 with Pot Black, but in 1970, along came Alex Higgins and the game took off.
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Alex
Pot
Took
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When the results weren't coming on the snooker table, I tried to supplement things by gambling on horses even more.
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Gambling
Horses
Supplement
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You can't be giggling and joking when you miss a shot in the modern game - not like the way when Ray Reardon used to do.
John Virgo /
Joking
Ray
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I never sat any exams at school. Our family situation meant that as soon as I was able to go out and get a job, I got one.
John Virgo /
Sat
Situation
Meant
Exams
Soon
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People often talk about George Best and Alex Higgins as two similar personalities... but the truth is that Best did not like Alex.
John Virgo /
Alex
Best Truth People
Personalities
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I was born in March 1946, almost exactly 10 months after V-E Day, so I imagine my parents got carried away when peace was declared.
John Virgo /
March
Carried
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When my father retired, all he did was twiddle his thumbs. I don't want to go down that road. As long as I'm still in demand, I'll work.
John Virgo /
Demand
Retired
Thumbs
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It took my parents years to save up for 'luxuries' like a fridge or a television, and we were always among the last in the street to get them.
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Fridge
Luxuries
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I went through a period when I was addicted to gambling. It was a compulsion that I struggled to get to grips with. By 1990, it was in danger of ruining my life.
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Compulsion
Danger
Gambling
Life My Life Through
Grips
Struggled
Ruining
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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.
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Competing
Laughing
Prize
Tournaments
Nowadays
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In 1983, I played in a new tournament called the Professional Snooker League. I won eight of my 11 matches, beating Alex Higgins, Jimmy White and Dennis Taylor, among others.
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Alex
Eight
Jimmy
League
Among
Beating
Won
Matches
Professional
Taylor
Tournament
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The better players need to be out there in front of a big crowd, the TV cameras, with the adrenaline going. That is a test for any player to be able to do it on the big stage.
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Adrenaline
Cameras
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I grew up on a street that's similar to the ones you used to see in Coronation Street on TV. We had an outside toilet at the bottom of the yard and I had to share a bedroom until my older sisters left home.
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Bedroom
Coronation
Sisters
Toilet
Yard
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The worst time was in 1985 when house prices crashed and interest rates went up to 14 percent. I was not winning on the snooker table and I had this big image to keep up - and a lifestyle where I lived beyond my means.
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Lifestyle
Crashed
Interest Rates
Prices
Rates
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It's a different world now and as we see with footballers and everybody else, and the fall from grace of any sportsman, it's a difficult balancing act now of going out and being nice to the general public and being very wary.
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Being Nice
Fall
General Public
Grace
Sportsman
Footballers
General
Balancing
Different World
Everybody Else
Wary
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I remember that if you went down to the Crucible or other snooker tournaments it was all the snooker writers, and then all of a sudden when the game became popular on television it wasn't only snooker writers: it was what we called special correspondents.
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Crucible
Tournaments
Sudden
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Particularly now with social media, you only need to turn round and someone will have a camera in your face and occasionally someone will be talking to you at the bar, asking you to pose for a picture, and someone will say, 'They're videoing this.' They're videoing you at the bar!
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Bar
Round
Occasionally
Pose
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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.
John Virgo /
Commentary
Earning
Expensive
Good Living
Holiday
Pressure
Sportsman
Successful
Winning
Appearances
Assume
Bbc
Exhibition
Work Car Good
Newest
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