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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.