John Higgins Quotes

• With some other top players I’m part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There’s so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe.

  John Higgins

• We’ve got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.

  John Higgins

• We’ve all got to get away from this idea that the big money’s still around.

  John Higgins

• The only woman I have played in my career was my wife and I beat her easily! But she wasn’t much good.

  John Higgins

• Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.

  John Higgins

• Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you’d go would be London.

  John Higgins

• People have been to jail when they’re innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

  John Higgins

• People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That’s what brought the game alive.

  John Higgins

• It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club.

  John Higgins

• It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn’t happen.

  John Higgins

• I’d rather win than be a showman.

  John Higgins

• I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception since I have come back.

  John Higgins

• I think $100 at the end of the year doesn’t mean a lot to me, but $100 from everyone in the state at the end of the year could mean lots of programs that could be good for Hawaii.

  John Higgins

• I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can’t dance.

  John Higgins

• I didn’t make a 147 until few years ago – I just wasn’t the sort of player who went for them. But it’s like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow.

  John Higgins

• I did think that I had a stalker for a while. But in Portugal, luckily, my wife was there to save me.

  John Higgins

• A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me.

  John Higgins

John Higgins (17)

Birth:	18th May, 1975
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Snooker Player

About

John Higgins was born in Wishaw, Scotland. He is a Scottish professional snooker player. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 29 ranking titles, including four World Championships and three UK Championships, as well as two Masters titles. Known as a prolific break-builder, he has compiled 698 century breaks in professional tournament play, placing him third behind Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry. He subsequently experienced a noted slump in form, and between 2012 and 2014 only won the 2012 Shanghai Masters. He married Denise in 2000. They have three children together: sons Pierce and Oliver, and daughter Claudia.

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