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I love life.
- Jimmy White
#I Love
#Life
#Love Life
#Love
Snooker lifted me out of depression.
- Jimmy White
#Depression
#Lifted
#Me
#Out
My dad was a coalman and was always playing snooker with his mates.
- Jimmy White
#Always
#Dad
#His
#Mates
#Playing
Not only did I have to face the great Steve Davis for 10 years, Stephen Hendry came along, who attacked the balls. He was such an incredible potter with self-belief.
- Jimmy White
#Balls
#Face
#Great
#Incredible
#Only
I never abused anybody but myself.
- Jimmy White
#Anybody
#Myself
#Never
I love Belfast, because of the way that people here love their snooker. And I won my first professional tournament here in 1981. It was at the King's Hall and I beat Doug Mountjoy in the final. That victory will always be pretty special for me.
- Jimmy White
#King
#Love
#Me
#Victory
#Way
I have been tamed. My party days are well and truly behind me.
- Jimmy White
#Behind
#Days
#Me
#Tamed
#Well
I learnt the game as a kid hustling car dealers for cash.
- Jimmy White
#Car
#Cash
#Dealers
#Game
#Kid
Talent, it can become a trap.
- Jimmy White
#Become
#Talent
#Trap
The worst problem I've probably had was the gambling - you can do your money in the bookies a lot quicker than you can do it in the pub.
- Jimmy White
#Gambling
#Money
#Worst
#You Can Do It
I was mad-keen on poker as a kid. It was like the snooker, pulling me into that same smokey atmosphere I loved.
- Jimmy White
#Atmosphere
#Like
#Loved
#Me
#Same
I've been gambling since the age of 12. Horses, dogs, dice, roulette, you name it.
- Jimmy White
#Age
#Dice
#Dogs
#Gambling
#Name
To be honest, most of my troubles - bankruptcy, drinking, gambling - were self-inflicted.
- Jimmy White
#Bankruptcy
#Gambling
#Most
#Troubles
I was never a playboy but I was an out and about boy.
- Jimmy White
#About
#Boy
#Never
#Out
On my 50th birthday the Rolling Stones played at my party at Grosvenor House. That's not bad for a kid from Tooting.
- Jimmy White
#Bad
#Birthday
#House
#Party
#Rolling
#Stones
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