Axioms

[KindlyOleUncleDave]

Koud's first axiom of one pocket: there is always at any time in any game of one pocket a best shot for the incoming player.

Any one else out there care to state the obvious?

[androd]

Koud's first axiom of one pocket: there is always at any time in any game of one pocket a best shot for the incoming player.

Any one else out there care to state the obvious?

The best shot is the one you can make. :)
Rod. <----obvious enough ?.

[CaliRed]

Just because the guy can run 8 racks of 9 ball on you, don't mean he's the favorite in onepocket.:D

[androd]

Just because the guy can run 8 racks of 9 ball on you, don't mean he's the favorite in onepocket.:D

I'm betting he ain't a big underdog. :)
Rod.

[lll]

if you play mistake free one pocket there is only one correct shot. problem is only one person knows it:D

[NH Steve]

One of my favorite Gradyisms: Don't take a shot you can lose with but not win with.

[Skin]

Don't screw up. You'll regret it.

Axiomatic Skin

[blackeee]

One of my favorite Gradyisms: Don't take a shot you can lose with but not win with.


That is my favorite too. I make it a point to remember that EVERY game I play.

[fred bentivegna]

"Get paid after every game and dont sleep no scratches."

Beard

[vapros]

Your job is to make the other guy unhappy. Any time you make him smile, you ain't doing it right. :D

[newfosgatesucks]

Don't play Efren even.

[Clare]

The best shot is the one you can make. :)
Rod. <----obvious enough ?.

I'm betting he ain't a big underdog.
Rod.

These are my two favorites. I like the way you think, Rod. :)

[demonrho]

Whatever you do - keep those unforced errors to a minimum.

(And RA's advice: when you're behind play like a lion - when you're ahead play like a lamb)

[frmn]

danny diliberto once told me "the shot should suggest itself". think about that when you are trying to force a shot that just ain't there.

[One Pocket Ghost]

Here's my favorite axiom, which, by the way, I just composed :) >>>


"The wisdom of a One Pocket player, should never be questioned by a 9Ball player"


:cool:-Ghost-:cool:

[NH Steve]

danny diliberto once told me "the shot should suggest itself". think about that when you are trying to force a shot that just ain't there.
I had not heard that one before -- it's a good one...

[usblues]

Blomdahl said while watching a shot "I always miss that shot long".RB said to him "Well then you should be able to adjust so you can make it".Blomdahl said "You would think so but at the precise moment you can't escape your flaws."As the above posts are legit and well-intentioned I somehow wonder if a world champion can't escape who he is what chance do us rabbits have of escaping Cowboys verses of holes and traps mentioned in another thread.Hopefully in our next life or even tomorrow we might remember some of the above excellent sayings.I particulary like the one about so many christians so few lions or "Get off the table Mable the two bucks is for the beer",cheers,B

[Pelican]

Turn the break around on your opponent first chance you get.

Give the Pelican whatever weight he wants - you'll still win. :o :o

Pel

Once heard in the Collisium ~ 'Programs, Programs, get your Programs. You can't tell the Christians from the Lions without a program.'

[RedCard]

...Study long, study wrong.

[wgcp]

A defensive shot is just as good, if not better than an offensive shot...

Always look for a way to make a two way shot...

Just because you have made that simple shot a million times... doesn't mean you don't need to concentrate harder to make it this time...

Slow down...look at the possibilities and probabilities of each shot...
:cool:
Just a few I have been told...

[lll]

1p is keeping your opponent from making 8 before you do.

[gulfportdoc]

Blomdahl said while watching a shot "I always miss that shot long".RB said to him "Well then you should be able to adjust so you can make it".Blomdahl said "You would think so but at the precise moment you can't escape your flaws."
Bob, I sure as hell can relate to THAT one!! Sometimes when I'm about to take a shot which I deep down suspect that is wrong, I feel like a kamikaze pilot! Sometimes I pull up, sometimes I don't...

Doc

[vapros]

Ohhh, brudder! Sometimes, especially if I'm going bad, and I want to follow a shot and hit the rail near a pocket, the pocket draws in my cueball as I do exactly what I knew I should guard against. I can feel it start even before I hit the shot. I feel like one of the monkeys being charmed by Mowgli's snake. Anybody else? :eek: :o

[androd]

Ohhh, brudder! Sometimes, especially if I'm going bad, and I want to follow a shot and hit the rail near a pocket, the pocket draws in my cueball as I do exactly what I knew I should guard against. I can feel it start even before I hit the shot. I feel like one of the monkeys being charmed by Mowgli's snake. Anybody else? :eek: :o

Negative thoughts create negative actions. :mad: Think about what you don't want to do and you'll do it often. ;)
Rod.

[RedCard]

The air barrel often bears spoiled fruit.

[wincardona]

It's not the hand you're dealt, it's how you play them.

[NH Steve]

...Study long, study wrong.Reminds me of a saying an old family friend used to say, "Thought leads to error." :D :D

[NH Steve]

Reminds me of a saying an old family friend used to say, "Thought leads to error." :D :D

But by the same token, Lack of thought invites ... disaster!

Steve <---- uh oh, quoting myself

[KindlyOleUncleDave]

Your job is to make the other guy unhappy. Any time you make him smile, you ain't doing it right. :D

The customer is always right.

So here we have a apparent paradox of no small dimension.

[SJDinPHX]

It's not the hand you're dealt, it's how you play them.

Now there is a real truism....'nuff said.

[RedCard]

It's not the hand you're dealt, it's how you play them.

Just don't get caught.

[Frank Almanza]

Don't talk yourself into believing that you can beat that kiss when you know you can't.

[KindlyOleUncleDave]

"Thinkin' is stinkin' " : Hippie Derrick (aka "Ferret Face"), circa 1982.

[Skin]

Somebiody has to throw a few Artie-isms in here. Two of my favorites.

1. Move a ball to your hole and leave him behind a ball where he can't play safe.

2. Stick and stay and make it pay. :D

Skin