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"When pool is properly taught and played in an ideal environment, it can bring a child much joy and personal growth."

Your love of the game is your best motivator for playing it as well as possible.

Practice may not necessarily turn you into a great player, but without it you don't even stand a chance.

The cost of educational materials on pool is a screaming bargain when compared with the price of experience.

The purchase price of a book or tape can easily be recovered the next time you compete at pool.

No advice is better than bad advice.

Be patient and learn things in their proper sequence.

Every edge you develop gives you another way to win or to avoid losing.

English is a very useful tool.  It is not the secret to the game.

Every player has recurring faults which must be monitored and swiftly corrected. 

Changing your game gives you the opportunity to improve but does not guarantee it.

A continuing quest for knowledge is your best insurance against a decline in enthusiasm for the game.

Knowing your game and quickly curing faults is the best way to avoid a prolonged slump.

The big secret is that there is no single big secret.

At any time all of your hard work could result in a quantum leap forward in your game.  When it happens, be prepared to accept your higher level of play.

There is your practice game, your “home-room” game and your road game.  When all three are about equal, then you have truly arrived as a pool player.

When you go against your basic nature as a pool player, then your game will normally suffer 9 times out of 10.

The better your game becomes, the more responsibility you must assume for its upkeep.

Shotmaking showoffs and winners seldom come in the same package.

The consistency of your stroke is directly related to the quality of your fundamentals.

In the short-run your game and your results will not often be very closely correlated.  In the long-run, they are completely related.

The quicker you can recover from a poor shot, the greater will be your chances of minimizing its impact on the match.

Your true game is the one that most closely matches reality with your perception of reality.

The best way to find out how well you play is to compete against a number of players near your level whose games are very well known.

Over-reliance on a strength can turn it into a weakness.

When you question what the balls do, it is because you are lacking knowledge in the physics of pool.  The balls never lie.

Your winning percentage reveals many things about you.  It is an indicator of your desire for competition, your sportsmanship, your emotional makeup and your love of money.

The majority of your competitive efforts should be with players a little worse to a little better than yourself.

Even though you've never played before, that doesn't mean that your opponent doesn't know your game.

No two tables play exactly alike, even in the same room.  Better players have learned the importance of sizing up a table fast and adapting to the conditions.

Your game almost never stays the same under pressure.  You'll almost always play better or worse than your “average” game.

As long as you've got heart, you've got a chance.

You get your best results by concentrating 100% on the shot you are playing, so it makes no sense to think about anything but that shot.

Dead strokecomes from not trying after much trying.

When it's just you and the table, no matter what's at stake, then you have ascended to a place where you are at one with the game.

There is a direct link between confidence and skill.

You've got to have the confidence that you will play well until you do play well.

Pool, by its very nature, will continuously test your level of confidence in yourself and your game.

If you don't believe in your game, who will?

When your anger causes one additional mistake, it is excessive.

Playing badly well is a difficult but invaluable art form.

Every shot you play can provide you with valuable information to help you improve your game.

The time you spend waiting for your turn should be spent wisely to help you win the game.

It all comes back to you, not the negative outside forces, but to your reaction or lack of reaction to them.

Don't be surprised at the quality of your opponent's play.

If your opponent sharks you, that indicates they don't think their game alone is good enough to beat you.

There is so much more to pool than shooting straight, playing shape and blasting a rack into pieces.

When you break down, you've given up before it's over.  This makes a comeback all but impossible.

Your hearing gets much better or much worse when you are under extreme pressure.

When you're not so worried about the outcome of a match, then it has a much better chance of turning out the way you want it to.

Winning can lead to more of the same if you believe and let it happen.

After some losses, it is unfortunately not over when it's over.

Look for the gift in every defeat.  If will come as a lesson that will help to prepare you to win next time.

You can be a winner without winning.

There are may ways to win a tournament.  You do not always have to be the best player or to be on top of your game to emerge on top.

The better you play, the less you need to depend on rolls.

If you expect bad rolls, that's what you'll get.

When you put up your money on the hope of receiving back even more at the end of the competition, then you are gambling on your game.

When all is said and done, the person giving the spot wins more often than not.

Approximately 50 percent of all pool games are over before the balls have been broken.

The more weight you think you need, the more weight you really need. 

The nuts is not always the nuts.

If you truly insist on making money as a stakehorse, you must be prepared to bat .750.

Your tempo affects your time of possession, which can affect your ability to play your best game.

When a team is truly together, league pool combines the best of an individual sport with the virtues of team play to create something very special.

Team goals must always take precedence over individual goals.  Only when team goals are completely realized should individual goals come to the forefront.

You'll enjoy league pool even more if you visualize how you'd like to look back on the season when it's over and then work to make that vision a reality.

League pool is not just about winning but about helping each other grow as pool players.

Your reputation speaks before you enter a pool room.  Make sure it has something good to say.

Life is too short to waste valuable pool time playing jerks.

Pool is the ultimate combination of physical and mental skills for those who wish to play the same game from ages 9 to 90.

When you ask questions about your game, you'll be taking a big step towards improving the quality of your journey in pool.

Regarding your level of play, the only constant is change.

The laws that govern your game and your life reveal your character.  Choose them wisely.

The acid test for your home room is how you feel while you're there.

No two pool rooms are exactly alike.  Each should be valued for what it adds to your pool playing experiences.

When you can no longer win by out shooting your opponents, then it's time to win by outsmarting them.

There is so much to love about pool that it's simply foolish to waste any time on the negatives.

The better a player talks the game, the tighter you should hold onto your wallet.

We all act like children once in awhile so we might as well try occasionally playing pool like one.

Pool should be lots of fun, serious or otherwise.  When it's not fun, you really only have yourself to blame.

The memory of a great shot can bring you pleasure for many years to come, so do what you can to preserve them for future reference.

Adding new games to your repertoire can increase your enjoyment and knowledge exponentially.

A break should be long enough to restore your zest for pool, but short enough so that you don't lose much of your game.

Every good shot has a bit of magic to it.  To the well-trained eye this continuously radiates the beauty of the game.

Great players are the sum total of a wide variety of hard earned skills, each honed to a razor sharp edge.

Rocket scientists are not professional pool players and vice versa.  But if you are pool smart you're smart.

Everybody topmargin="0" marginheight="0" used to play 50 percent better than they really did long ago when they don't have to prove it on the table anymore.

Some of the most highly skilled and underpaid psychologists hang out in pool rooms.

When pool is properly taught and played in an ideal environment, it can bring a child much joy and personal growth.

There will always be rogues in every sporting activity, pool most definitely included.  Without them, the game would lose much of its color.

Rogues behavior make the rest of us look better than we probably really are.