“Kirk Stevens has done for snooker what Persil did for washing, what Kermit did for frogs and what Tarzan did for the jungle. In other words, he has layered the game with pink and white marzipan, made it nice, touched it with the Sound of Music and Mary Poppins and left it bubbling with show-biz home-cooked schmaltz.”
- Ted Corbett Daily Star

“I remember the last black and I feel like I got a slight kick, and I thought not now. And I watched the black stay to the high side of the pocket, so when it went in, it was as much relief as it was celebration.”
- Kirk Stevens

“He was good enough to win the World Championship, I know that for a fact.”
- Cliff Thorburn

“That man is a great player. He should be in the top 16 now”
-Steve Davis on playing new professional Alain Robidoux in the fourth round of the 1988 Fidelity Trusts International, a match Davis narrowly won 5-4.

“I was surprised. As it was my first attempt I just went in determined to play well. I knew I could beat some of the players but I did not expect to win, especially at my first attempt.”
-Alain Robidoux on winning the 1988 Canadian Professional Championship.

“When George walked into a room – rooms that didn’t know him – by the time he’d hit three balls you could hear a pin drop. When he started hitting balls he didn’t have to say a word. Everybody stopped and started watching him.”
-Paul Thornley

“Nobody, nobody in the world has ever come close to George in both sports (snooker and straight pool). He was a cut above everyone else in his ability, but also in the way he presented himself.”
-Cliff Thorburn

“He put the gentleman atmosphere into the pool room. He projected a class act.”
Kenny Shea

What is going on in Canada?”
- Fifteen-Time World Snooker Champion Joe Davis upon hearing of Leo Levitt’s historic 147; an achievement that was to elude Davis for another nine years.

“A serious opponent.”
- Eight-time World Snooker Champion Fred Davis.

Jim Wych is a two-time national snooker champion, a multi-time provincial champion, former top-16 world ranked professional, snooker and pool commentator, snooker promoter and business owner.

“Bob Hargrove was not just Canada’s finest referee but was certainly ranked as one of the all-time greatest in the world. He was a total professional from the minute he arrived to take charge of the match until the final handshake. I was always happy to see him assigned to my matches because he was a perfect referee; he knew every rule, he stayed out of the way and was never in your line of sight and he respected the players’ styles and never interrupted the flow of the game. He made Canadian snooker proud.”
– Kirk Stevens

“My greatest pleasure has been to see Canadian Champions go on to make their mark on the world stage: Cliff Thorburn becoming World Champion in 1980, Kirk Stevens running that magnificent 147 at the Benson & Hedges in 1983 and Bob Chaperon winning the British Open in 1990. That was “the decade” of Canadian Snooker and it was the honour of my lifetime to have a front row seat for the best of it.”
- Bob Hargrove

Brady Gollan is a two-time Canadian Amateur Snooker Champion, a former under-21 Canadian Snooker Champion and a world-ranked professional snooker player.