[FASTLARRY]

You probably heard the old sports joke, "I went to the fights last night, and a hockey game broke out."
It is funny, but sadly true.
The events that are happening today in sports are becoming more and more violent each passing day...the brawls on soccer fields across the world...the fights in hockey are almost expected...a tight inside pitch in baseball starts a rumble in the infield...an elbow on a rebound brings about a shoving match in basketball...and everywhere is there trash talk. People are killed with pool cues, guns and knives every week in pool halls.
Just within the past few years the world of sports has shown its dark side. These are but a few of the dIsgraceful actIons that have been wIdely reported In the medIa...a professional football player is charged with the murder of his pregnant wife...another NFL athlete attacks a referee with a head butt, because of a thrown penalty flag hits him in the eye...the Los Angles Dodgers get into a brawl with the fans in Wrigley Field in Chicago when a fan reaches over the dugout and steals a player's hat...an All-Pro tight end is charged with sexual assault of a minor...domestic abuse is rampant...an NBA basketball player attacks and chokes his head coach...a very successful collegiate basketball coach is fined $30,000 for his actions towards his athletes and is put on zero-tolerance probation...an NHL hockey player slashes an opponent across the head and renders him unconsious and in serious condition in the hospital...a former heavyweight champion boxer bites off part of his opponents ear during a bout.
Athletic Principle
What was the cause of this violence? Uncontrolled emotional anger. You see anger everywhere in sports. Cheap shots, trash talk, then retaliation. Now you can see countless expressions of anger even at the youth level of sports. Why? Because it is modeled for us on TV by the athletes whom we idolize. It is beginning to become the norm in sports, rather than a taboo.
From a performance standpoint, a number of things can happen, which are all bad when an athlete has anger building up inside his heart. First the athlete loses their focus. Instead of concentrating on the task at hand, thoughts drift to how to physically attack an opponent. It can be a kick, a trip, an elbow, a slash, a slide intended to take out the legs, a high tight fastball, a clip, or even a punch below the belt. The result can be varied; sometimes you will get a way with it, sometimes a foul or a penalty will be issued, sometimes an ejection will result, sometimes a fight will occur, and sometimes the person who retaliates is penalized and the offender gets off free.
In any result, uncontrolled anger has consequences. Not only for the athlete, but for the team as well. Because of anger, an athlete can forget his purpose. Assignments are missed and the team suffers. An ejection can put a team and its coach on an emotional roller coaster with the untimely loss of a key starter. Unchecked anger is potentially dangerous.
I have seen two APA teams erupt into a total free for all battle busting up chairs over each others heads that would make a Hollywood bar fight sceen in a movie if they had taped it. Parents do the same thing at little league baseball games.
How then do we handle anger?
God's Performance Principle
Anger unfortunately is human nature. The Bible talks about the "burning anger" of Samson (Judges 14:19), and even King David, who the Bible calls "a man after God's own heart," burned with anger (2 Samuel 12:5). All of us at some time or another have to deal with anger. God knows this, and His Word, the Bible talks at length about it.
God is calling us to a higher standard. God is described as holy, and we are called "to be holy as God is holy." Holiness is to separate yourself from sin and to conform with the very character and heart of God.
"But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: 'Be holy, because I am holy." (1 Peter 1:15-16) God is also described as "slow to anger and abounding in love" at total of six times in the Bible. As children of God, He wants us to have the same character qualities...slow to anger and abounding in love. Even God got angry with His chosen people of Israel when they continually disobeyed Him. We are told that, "Time after time he restrained his anger," (Psalm 78:38). So then what key wisdom can God impart on us to restrain our anger? "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under-control." (Proverbs 29:11) Be wise. Keep your self under control. Walk away. Count to ten. Refocus. Don't get caught in the trap of pride when self-talk tells you to retaliate. Say no to the voices that tell you, "You can't do that to me! I'll show you!" Keep your anger in check. "In your anger do not sin; Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold." (Ephesians 4:26) If you anger is left unchecked, if you do not refocus, you will be capable of sinning. How? By going after the person your mad at. God tells us to deal with anger now! Don't let a day pass and let that anger build to an explosive force in your heart. "My dear brothers, take not of this: Everyone should be quick to listen. Slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires." (James 1:20) God desires that you listen carefully and think before you speak. If you fail to listen, if you are quick with your tongue, this can cause anger to boil up within your heart. This is God's will for you and by following His will, anger will be kept in check. "Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered, for you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared." (Proverbs 22:24-25) King Solomon, in all of his wisdom writes that your choice of friends is important. Watch out with whom you hang out with. Your friends can rub off on you, and you may become just like them - you may just get trapped because of who you run with. "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger." (Proverbs 29:11) You need to keep your cool. If you do, you will control your temper. A soft spoken word will turn away anger, but uncontrolled shouts of anger will incite anger. The key here is your response - you will reap what you sow. If you respond in love, you will get love back. If you respond in anger, anger will be returned back to you. Jesus speaking, "But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment." (Matthew 5:22) Jesus gives us the final word on anger. Don't get angry! For it you do, you will be judged for it. You really don't want to go there! It is a sin with consequences. Avoid sin - run from it.
Anger will knock on your door at almost any moment. How do you answer? By being wise, under self-control, with a listening ear, a slow to speak response that is gentle in nature. Keep your focus. Keep your temper in check. If you can follow God's game plan, anger will no longer be a troubled spot in any area of your performance.


[ Edited by FASTLARRY on 2004/9/8 17:13 ]

[pooh]

There is a reason that most anger management classes do not work. A person has to know why they are angry to stop being angry.

Anger originates from insecurity,ego and hurt. if a player does not realize why they are angry,any technique used is like bandaid on an amputation.

When i was first playing pool I got mad when I lost to a sandbagger, or if i lost because I played badly. i was so in ego about not looking bad to my team, that my emotions got messed up. Ego fed insecurity and that fed anger and so forth. Once I dropped the ego bs, I was okay. But I know, if i find myself angry about a pool game, it is my ego.

Well that is my opinion, for what it is worth.

[FASTLARRY]

But the problem is, a hustler, a con, a gambler, a scumie, will put an anger shark on you. He will do things on purpose to set you off, so you will get upset, drop adrenalin, then you are toast and easy meat. I do that to all of my students, just to see how they react to it.

Most can't believe I do that. I win and laugh at them, rub it in. Then we discuss the emotion of that. I keep doing it, until the student learns to deal with it. When I no longer can get to him, I then leave him alone, he has learned that lesson. he is now FL proof, and if I can't get to him, trust me, nobody can now. I could get mother teresa foaming at the mouth at me.

My father used to say, when you loose your head, your ass soon follows. These shark attacks are an act, a scripted routine they pull, just to see if they work. Low rent, but these are low rent people who pull them.

[ Edited by FASTLARRY on 2004/9/9 0:26 ]

[paco1076]

FL,

You started off this post with all sorts of examples of violence in athletics. I remember playing little league ball (I am only 27 so it wasn't that long ago) and intentionally trying to spark some sort of emotional response in my opponents. I didn't know exactly what I was doing at the time, but it seems clear to me now. We were brought up to believe that you have to play sports with emotions to reach the peak of your game. That if you didn't get fired up and play your a$$ off that you weren't pulling your weight for the team. So we brought emotions to the game early on and that just continues to fester and breed more emotions through the years. By the time a player get to the pro-level they are jammed packed full of emotions, adrenaline, and the fear that they will be seen as not macho. That they will be discounted as a half-a$$ player.

Now, the flip side of this is the lack of emotion. The crux of mental control and emotionally stillness. This is what I have been striving for during my pool matches. This has been a huge topic of conversation on this board for a while. And it finally seems to be that the professionals in sports have decided that mental/emotional control is the begining of greatness. Look at Barry Bonds, cool as a cucumber standing up there at the plate. He is disappointed when he is intentionally walked, but he doesn't get mad. I can get under the skin of the people I am playing now just by not letting them get to me. No matter what happens at the table, I just smile at them and make the next run of balls. I put all the pressure onto them and make them the ones who are sweating at the table. If you can control your own mind, you will be able to control your game.

Craig

[FASTLARRY]

Getting pumped up, excited, is great for running sports like Tennis, basketball, football, baseball, etc. Droping adrenalin is a helper. In pool it is a disaster. You have to keep cool and not let your self get excited. Anger and all emotions must be tightly controlled.


Adrenalin 1-7-04 , rev 11-2-06, CR, Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved. 6 pages. Czm, upm, bpn, rsb, ppt, btt, isp.


The noun "adrenalin" has 1 sense in WordNet.
1. epinephrine, epinephrin, adrenaline, Adrenalin -- (a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action)

The adrenal gland is a very important organ in the human body. The body has two adrenal glands, one riding on top of each Kidney. They are also called suparnenals and they can do super things. They have two parts, the medulla inner core and the cortex outer shell.
The medulola is controlled by the nervous system. Nerve signals prompt the medulla to secrete epinephrine adrenalin and norepinphrine into the blood. These are extremely powerful drugs that work very fast to help the body adjust to sudden stresses.
The cortex is controlled by the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland stimulates the cortex to secrete hormones into the blood as well. Some of these hormones including cortisol and aldosterone help regulate salt and sugar balances in the body. These balances are so important that a person would die if they were not constantly maintained. The beauty is this works automatically with out our control.

Adrenalin is a registered trade name for the drug epinephrine, which is a hormone that is normally secreted into the blood by the adrenal glands when there is a stress command placed. Feel stress, the drug is dropped.
In the body, it is trying to regulate proper blood pressure at a normal level until the brains says dump the main load; we have a crisis, main line this guy now.

When a person becomes angry or frightened the adrenal glands pour large amounts of epinephyrine into the blood. It works very quickly and has a sudden impact. It is Gods design for primitive man to see a Lion that wants to have him for lunch, and get a sudden super human burst of energy so he can run to the tree for safety. In primitive man this was a very cool tool, in modern man, it can be more of a curse than a helper.

There are many reports of small women seeing a car jack slip and fall on their child working on a car and a 100 lb lady lifts the car up so he can escape. Super human things can be done when this super drug main lines your veins. It also sends all of your emotions totally bonkers. Most of us have had someone cut us off in traffic and flip us the bird and felt rage go wild, people kill each other from road rage all the time. That was an adrenal drop. When rage hits and the drug drops, you can be mentally insane for 30 seconds. When you feel rage, that is why the old saying, close your eyes and slowly count to 10, that is allowing the first rush of the drug, the most powerful jolt, to slowly begin to dissipate. The hormones being dropped as well are meant to make the body more efficient for fight or flight. That’s great news if you want to duke it out in a bar or run to a tree from a hungry Lion.

This can be good for a football, basket ball or tennis player who run to win. It is however death to a golfer or pool player who can stand there and look at the ball for minutes before striking it. That is why you see so much choking and collapses coming down the stretch in both games. We have too much time to think about it and set up the choke.
If you are playing pool and get angry or scared you can cause a full adrenal drop, you are now toast. Kiss your bippy goodbye. They can stick a fork in your behind because you are now well done.

The epinephrine causes the muscles in the walls of the arties to contract, thus slowing the bleeding from the expected wounds from the fight or the Lion attack so you won’t bleed to death. The drug relaxes muscles in the bronchi, which are the large air passages into the lungs so you can have more air to run farther faster. Everything has changed all of your touch and feel is gone. You can’t hit your butt with a broom and have no clue where whitey is now going. Your entire nervous system is spiked through the roof. Your heart is now racing and your have no fight to perform or no tree to run to, all you have is your veins now filled with this powerful drug and every system in your cpu is screaming red alert, red alert.

Now tell me how you are going to play pool with all that going on. The answer is, you are not. You are done. Depending on the situation, the amount of the drop can vary a lot, from a full main line to a lighter amount. You must learn to recognize the symptoms and realize when you get hit with a drop. I can remember when this used to happen to me before I got it under control I would be sitting in a chair and my arm would be shaking so violently I would have to hold it still so nobody would see it. You vision can blur and you can become mentally confused. You can cripple your self so you can barely play or run 2 balls.

There is a second crippling affect that strikes the upper level players. I remember once I was gambling with a top stick who I had always had problems beating and got loose and ran 6 racks in a row on him in a row I was so excited about it, finally I got to drop this bum and I was so pumped up that during the7th rack I went brain dead. You just stand there like a statue unable to move like a deer in the road blinded by headlights.

I asked my surgeon pal who checks all of my articles for accuracy that have medical terms in them what happened to me and he explained to me how the brain works is simple. I had too much data coming in to the central cpu. Too much emotion and cpu could not process it all so to prevent blowing a fuse or a melt down burning wires cpu just threw a circuit breaker which shut me down which explains me standing there frozen. I can’t move because I am waiting for instructions on what to do and none is coming in. This crippling affect can also be prevented as well by just staying calm and not letting your emotions run wild. So when and if that occurs to you and you see your self frozen and can not move or think, stop the game now. Make an excuse and head to the head and sit on the stool and calm down by deep breathing exercises. You all need to buy tapes and books on this subject and learn how to do this and how to meditate. It is a vital tool to own. Never play on when this or an adrenalin rush hits you. When you see the signs realize you screwed up and you just screwed your game into the dirt. Buy time to recover and to come back and play.

Stop what you are doing immediately. Make some excuse like you have just become very ill and have to take an immediate break. Go into the rest room, open a stall, go in & lock the door and sit on the stool until the drug wears off. If they come looking for you and ask what is going on say I have a case of the trots, must be the bad Chinese food I ate. Work with me here please, I’ll be out in just a minute. Most will buy this lie. It’s lie, lose or DQ, your choice of the three out comes. I prefer the little white lie my self.

That might take 5 or 10 minutes. If you continue to play in that condition, you will lose every time. I would risk a DQ than go on and play to a certain defeat. If you continue to play after the drop by the time the drug wears off, you are now so far behind you can’t catch up or the match is over. If you are forced back on the floor with out a full recovery then go into a massive slow down until you feel your have returned to normal. Just sit on the stool with your eyes closed and deep breath trying to relax between shots. Just slowly calm your self down and slow down your heart beat and breathing. Take a full minute between every shot. Stall all you can.

Before I gained control of my emotions by using Zen, I remember I was playing a world champion and I wanted to do well, his name was Willie. I did not expect to win, I just wanted some respect. I had played him once before and almost beat the guy, running 75 out of the chute in a game of 100 when I got the first shot. He came to the table and ran 100 and out on me, I was shocked by that. I was not scared of him the first match, but when I played him the 2nd time I was now terrified of the guy. I can remember sitting there waiting to play and I was so scared my leg was shaking. It began to shake so bad I had to hold it down. I was literally falling apart, my emotions turned to mush. I let adrenal drop and when I got the first shot, I only ran 12 and missed. Mosconi ran 100 and out again on me.

I played great the first match being loose and confident. The 2nd match I played like a dog. That is what happens to you when you lose control of your emotions, you are finished. The lesson I learned that day was never fear any man in any game. So you lose, they don’t chop off your head. The only chance you have to win is to play them totally fast and loose. After that sank in, I beat a dozen world champions just by coming after them hard, fast and loose out of the chute, showing no fear. I never got to play Mosconi a 3rd time, not that I might have won. During the time I played him, he was virtually UN beatable, because he feared no one. That little prick would be virtually running around the table and when he would trot by he would give you this little smirk of disrespect which meant sausage, I am the man and you are going down. He would whip the eye of the Tiger on you for sure. He would set off all kinds of emotions in you. Fear, anger, hate, which are killers to a pool player. Never let fear of losing to anyone affects you. Fear is your greatest enemy; you must remain calm at all times. No fear, just say it over and over when you play.

Jimmy Caras who was one of my life long teacher and also Irving Crane who I never worked with but told me the same thing. 90% of who they played came to the table defeated. They lost badly because they were scared and choked. They said to beat most of them all they had to do was dazzle them with a little run and they folded faster than a Kmart blue light special $2 car table. They expect you to fold and 90% of you comply. They are loose and confident, you are up tight and choking like a dog during the lag.

You must be conscious of your little pouch of drugs sitting on top of your Kidneys just waiting to dump into your veins, let that happen, your are a loser. Now you know it’s vital you remain calm and relaxed and not let anything going on around you to affect you. Number one; have no fear of your opponent, so what he’s this or that, all he can do is win, life goes on after that for you. If you are gambling, some roadies will get aggressive if you’re winning and get in your face to cause an argument, some can get nasty, even threatening. They want you to drop your load and go off on it, that is what that is all about. Be smarter than that, just smile in their face and scold them for being rude and ask them politely to sit down. When they see they cannot provoke you into anger and rage, they won’t waste their time doing it again.

See Zen as your shield, it protects you from these emotions, keeps them at bay, and you will never have a disastrous adrenal drop ever again if you are a Zen player, it is impossible for that to occur. Just keep smiling and humming your tune, whistle while you work, and be happy in your work running out on the other guy so he does not get a shot. At the pro level, 90% of the game is mental, mental control of your emotions and concentration and focus. You learn to keep your emotions on a level keel where they never go up or down. If you dog the 9 to win a game you sit down feeling no emotions. No anger. If you win the game the same thing. You must learn to not let your emotions spike.

Even the total beginner should begin learning these vital concepts and techniques from the get go. Never ever beat your self or shoot your own self in the foot. If you are a league player, you see this happen in almost every match played. You sit back from afar and probably wonder why, how can these people do these things, how can they dog a game ball that’s a hanger in the hole, then you get up and do the same thing your self. It is all because you people do not control you and your emotions; everything around you is controlling you. Until you put a stop to this madness and take control of you and your destiny, nothing changes.

My teacher Minnesota Fats a half-century ago said to me and I quote, “Only a sausage, a sucker puts heat on himself. Why would you want to do that, make your self into a loser, that don’t make no sense. Why would you shoot your own self in your foot or cripple your self so you can not play. How dumb is that? You must learn how to control your emotions. Pressure in self-induced, only you can put it on, only you can take it off. It’s a feel game, you can’t play it if you lock your self up tight. You have to play it with a natural flow, fast and loose, nice and calm with a smile on your face when you see the game ball, because you know you’re a winner and you never dog the game ball, so pay day just arrived. “You say to your self, I never miss the game ball for da cash, ah yes indeed. When it falls you say, how sweet it is to the sausage you just beat. It’s all about confidence. That you can not have too much of.
So just relax and play fast and loose. Just say, no fear and freewheel on the other guy. Never fear losing or looking bad. Just play your best stick and let the out come happen naturally. Pool is simple, you win some, you lose some. Get used to losing, nobody wins every time. NEVER FEAR LOSING.

“There are only two types of players. Those who keep their nerves under control and win championships and those who do not.” Harry Vardon English golf champion.

Many of you have a disease. As you know it is incurable. You will have it till the day you die. You are ashamed of having it so you hide your affliction from every one you know. It is called chokeritis. Now Doctor Larry can’t cure your disease or give you a magic pill to end it but I can write you a prescription for you that can reduce the out breaks. Yes, every one chokes. I have even seen Mosconi choke like a dog and Tiger Woods as well but they catch their selves doing this and pull out of it fast and resume normal play.

Not all do recover. I saw Arnold Palmer once choke so badly he hit two ground balls beheading gofers on the 18th hole to lose like a dog in Atlanta. . I also saw AP with a 6 stroke lead at the US Open blow it coming down the stretch with only 6 holes to play. I also saw AP play like a God and win 60 championships. We saw Greg Norman do the same thing at the Masters with a 6 stroke lead where he was playing perfect and suddenly he is playing like a 20 handicap. That is what out of control emotions can do to any one no matter whom they are. They can turn a God into a hacker.

Like in AA you must get up in front of your pals and confess, I am a choking dog. I have the disease Chokeritis and I am now in therapy with FL trying to make a recovery. Yell it out to the multitudes and get it off your chest. No more secrets or hidden fears. Come out of the closet Brucie. You must stop hiding the fact you are a choking dog. Once you admit this then you are on the road to recovery where you slowly become a winner and then one day your pals give you your new handle you earned, the ice man. You will then be feared by all and they will be choking when they play you.

Now your goal is to prevent choking by stopping adrenalin dropping and playing in this calm slow demeanor in a state of relaxed grace. You want to learn how to drop into dead stroke, or even the zone. The more you practice this the less you choke. Remember chokeritis can not be cured, it can only be controlled. When you do choke and lose badly don’t get up set about it. Just study why and how it occurred and try to learn from that mistake and not allow it to happen again. Type B people do better with this than anxious nervous type A’s. So when you play pool, hang loose dude. Stay cool and don’t let any thing or any one upset or affect you. Just whistle while you work and run out on the other guy. If you don’t miss then there is no way the other guy can win.

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You must develop a pure perfect stroke you can trust and that will take a coach and a advanced level teacher. When you build that perfect stroke and get in dead punch you can now go play some serious pool. Now the game is won and lost between the 6” of your ears. You next master the mental side of the game.
Memorize this and when you need it, recite it to your self in the chair. It will pull you many future victories you would have let slip away.
To become great, you must learn to reach deep down inside to pull out that extra edge it will take for you to win. There is a hero inside you just waiting to be set free who will rise to the occasion and play at a level you have never seen or dreamed possible before. You must summon him, command him to rise and to go win. A true champion digs down inside and pulls up and out the greater you inside.
Crunch time is that point where the winner steps up to the plate and takes charge and vanquishes the loser he is playing. You must dig down deep for that winner inside you and turn him loose. Let him see the finish line, smell the victory, grab the bit in his mouth and runs for the roses. Let that big dawg hunt, just get out of his way and follow him home. The loser gives up, see’s no way to win, spits the bit and rolls over. “FL”

You must learn to control your emotions. Fatty taught me only a sucker puts heat on his own self. Only you put it on and only you can take it off. Why shoot your own self in the foot so you can't win so just relax and play fast and loose. Just say, no fear and freewheel on the other guy. Never fear losing or looking bad. Just play your best stick and let the out come happen naturally. Pool is simple, you win some, you lose some. Get used to losing, nobody wins every time. NEVER FEAR LOSING. Just run out on the other guy then there is no way you can lose.
“There are only two types of players. Those who keep their nerves under control and win championships and those who do not.” Harry Vardon English golf champion.




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Lead me, follow me or get the hell out of my way. Do one of the three please? Come celebrate the wonder of this beautiful game with me and become a student of it.
Be my friend, walk my way, flow with what I teach you and you will soar like the Eagle into levels of excellence you never dreamed possible. Play by feel, not by systems; do not make a simple game complicated. Go with what you know, go with what is natural.

"Winners make things happen. Losers let things happen." In the words of Vince Lombardi, "When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened." Vince said you’ve got to pay the price. Winning is not a sometime thing, it’s an all the time thing. Winning is a habit, unfortunately so is losing. Vince Lombardi once said, “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of profession or endeavor. Fast Eddy said about the same thing in the color of money.
Winning is everything. Winning is the only thing. If you can dream it, see it, believe it, you can do it and you can be it. You can perform totally out of the box deep into the Zone, one with the shot, freewheeling fast and loose with no fear. Then you are a person with no limits who can achieve anything he can imagine that a human body is capable of producing. “FL”
Show me a guy who does not mind losing and I will show you a sausage. Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser. “FL” “Nice guys finish last” quote from Lou Durocher
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." – Yoda
Conquer your fear and you conquer the game, the battle, your life and your fear of death. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander The Great 320 BC.
When you play, repeat over and over, No fear. Just freewheel and let the good times roll. Keep holding the cue as lightly as possible and keep saying, fast and loose.

It is all about visualization, focus, concentration and playing in the zone. You just see it, feel it, do it: It does not get any deeper than this? Play pool with an empty mind. “FL”

“Flow with what ever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting what ever you are doing and what ever comes your way.”
Chuang-Tzu.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

Fortune favors the brave. Virgil, Aeneid Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC)

Conquer your fear and you conquer the game, the battle, your life and your fear of death. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander The Great 320 BC.

For a man thinks within himself, so he is.” Proverbs 23:7 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13

In order to master pool you must first learn how to master yourself and your emotions. “For to conquer in battle a thousand men a thousand times, means you have now conquered yourself and you are now the greatest of warriors” Dharmapada.

This is a feel game and a mind game. When the mind is pure, pure perfect pool will follow. Perfect pool comes from being taught how to practice perfect. Being in dead punch is the ultimate trip and reward from that. “FL”

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Rack em sausage, Go play fast and loose. Ride em hard, put em up wet, leave the ladies smiling. Live free, die well owing no man anything. May you be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you’re dead? In time, it’s all dust in the wind anyway. Don’t take your self, or anything too serious, just be happy and healthy. Laughter good whiskey and song is the best medicine. If you have a library, a garden, a good woman and a barrel of Scotch, you have all you need.
Rudolph Wanderone Sr, Minnesota Fats father, told fatty at age 5, a lucky man lives the sporting life. Never do anything that makes you unhappy. An unhappy man will not live long. If you are happy, you are a rich man. If a man has his health, a roof over his head, good food and friends what else does he need? He is wealthy beyond compare. Every thing on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. You now must learn what you mission is and fulfill your destiny. Pay your Karma off and be clean for the next go around.
Aristotle said the main purpose is to survive to reproduce. Once that is accomplished then the main goal in life is to achieve happiness. The Dali Lama says the main goal in life is to achieve enlightenment. The 2nd goal is to achieve happiness and you and only you are responsible for this. Seek it in you and do not expect others to give it to you. Any thing you wish to do that brings you happiness, or to others, must be under taken. The question of whether it is profitable should never be asked. If it loses money, it still must be done. If you can find a thing to do which brings you happiness and makes you money you are indeed a lucky person. Your third goal is to find your soul mate. Seek out a woman you like who makes you happy and who you like to spend time with. Do not seek out beauty or follow lust as once that cools, your relationship has been made on sand which soon crumbles into dust.
Play the best, hustle the rest. Be a locksmith. Never play hew haw, it will ruin you. It is not how good you play but how good you match up. If you see a sausage and know you can give him the 7 and the snap and rob him drunk, do not bet until you sell him to give you the 7 and the snap. Do this and you never lose and sleep on silk sheets at night.
Just never wise up a chump or give a sucker an even break, W.C. Fields.
Never give weight. Spot, what is that, you never spot nobody nuttin. Spot is your little dog who got run over by a Mack truck in front of the motel 6 in Lodi. You say, stop talking about spot, every time you do I get tears in my eyes and wont be able to play.
When you clean out the joint and they are all standing there complaining you hustled us and took all our money. You say to them, grasshopper, I have a stable of hot ho’s to support who depend on me to bring home the loot so they can have a good time. So the needs of the many, you sausages, are out weighed by the needs of the one, me. Bow in reverence as you walk backwards towards the door, then turn running out the door and leap in the rear door of your caddy head first which was open and is pointed into the traffic with its bright lights on. You now say tell the ho driving, its 100 miles to Chicago, we have a half tank of gas, a full pack of cigarettes, we are both wearing sun glasses, it is dark, hit it.
"When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same." eighteenth-century Japanese Zen poet Ryokan, All the great teachers in pool and there are very few, end up teaching the same things.

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925 "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

All that is certain in life are you are born, you will die, you will pay taxes and everything you now know and love will change. Change is the one certainty you must learn to live with and accept in your life. The only thing certain in life is change. Do not fight something you have no control over. Gracefully accept change when it comes. “FL”

Nuttin sticks, everything changes, everyone leaves you. You gotta play it big while you got it. You gotta be big, hit it big, miss it big, every thing you do has gotta be big. “Babe Ruth”.

Be sure to take the time, to smell the flowers along the way. Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. Wander in wonder of life and follow La Vie Dansante. As my grand master said and I quote as a loyal parrot head, why don’t we get drunk and screw?
It took me years to learn how to beat and avoid hangovers, just stay drunk and don’t sober up. Never act your age, stay young forever. FL is 29; he plans to stay 29 forever. His kids are now older than he is and do not understand him at all. In 7 more years his grand children will be older than him. Fl says, when you begin to act your age, it’s all over for you. The number one cause of death in old people is retirement and boredom. You must always have a hobby or a job, a project or a hottie your old lady does not know about on the side to keep you alive and on earth with a purpose.
I want to die being totally alive with my boots on. I don’t want to die being brain dead for a decade with my boots off and rotting in a bed on a pan. I want to die on top of a 19 year old hottie yelling who’s your daddy, Bonsai just as I catch the big one. Use your imagination on that one. If you gotta go dudes, go out with a bang hangin 10. Or when I die, I want to die like my father-- who died peacefully in his sleep with his boots on and not screaming like all the passengers riding in his Lincoln Town car who were going downhill on the interstate at 85mph at the time coming down out of the mountains. Die happy and you lived a good life. Live you life daily with honor and pride in your actions and you will sleep like a baby. Always tell the truth and you don’t have to remember your lies. Be a man of honor and integrity.
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. “Quote Indian Chief Aupumut.”
FL say’s only the good die young, God allows all pool hustlers to live till they are 85 so they can suffer. If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my self. I had a damn good run and more time here than I expected or planned for so if it all ends tomorrow, no tears, I lived 3 life times in the same span a normal man lives one. When I die I want to be cremated and my ashes sprinkled inside a Super Wal-Mart, then I’ll know my kids will finally come to see me twice a week. Actually my ashes will be sprinkled off the far point of lovers Key in Bonita Springs, Florida.
There was always only three things important to me. Panther Piss, Pussy and Pool, the big 3. Get those 3 right and then as Lamata said, the rest of it don’t matta no how. I became the master of all three and the rest then just fell in line some how. Old Scotch, young broads and a good pool game, ah yes indeed my boy, what else is there to live for. The scotch keeps you mellow, the dolls keep you smiling and pool keeps your pockets filled with green lettuce so you don’t have to work or wear no suit.
When you are riding it home, can see the finish line, don't spit da bit. Begin beating the ass with your riding whip and yell out like Tarzan C’est si bon, si bon, si bon, who's yo daddy. When she screams FL, don't take it too hard, life goes on. C’est La Vie.
I have seen it all, done it all, been everywhere, and now can’t remember any of it. I wonder why I spent all that time and money doing it in the first place. I should have just stayed home.
Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.
I danced the last Tango in Paris
Took the last chopper out of Saigon
Took the first fast boat to China
And there's still so much to be done
I had a third world girl in Caracas
With a pistol in each hand
She always kept me covered
As we moved from land to land.
I stashed my cash in Cayman land and
Lived to dance and make love.
I had a damn good run on Wall Street
With my high fashion model wife.
I wore out running all over the Americas crashed
And burned three planes.
From coast to coast. I ran through a lot of good women
And drove them all insane.
I woke up dry beneath the African sky
Just me and my Swiss Army knife. A legend never dies.
Remember the words of the great Emiliano Zapata . . .
it is better to die on your feet, than live on your knees. . .
I am just a simple teacher. All that I now know is that I now know nothing. I am nothing but a good ball banger who teaches a good lesson and puts on a good trick shot show that is the only two things I do well in life. "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking
Aristotle said “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
Fast Larry Guninger, real man, real pool player, real American, real Christian.” God bless the land of the free and of the brave. Fáilte Roimh Cheartúcháin, Go dtuga Dia suaimhneas síoraí dó. Politically he is John fookin Wayne and just a little to the right of Attila the Hun. He say, I ain’t runnin for gov-nor so you all can take all that politically correct bull she-yit and stuff it where da sun don’t shine. I tell it like it is. Some of you, can’t deal with the real truth.

Minnesota Fats: Larry’s teacher said? "When I played pool I was like a psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions." "You don't learn from smart people, you learn from idiots. Watch what they do, and then don't do it." Learn to be a lock smith. If you should be giving the 7 and the snap, don’t play for money unless you sell the pigeon he should give you the 7 and the snap. Then you never lose. Never put heat on your self, pressure is self induced; only you can put it on, only you can take it off. The toughest player mentally wins when skills are equal. "Golf is 90% mental and 10% physical." -- Ben Hogan said "I am the toughest golfer mentally." -- Tiger Woods agrees as do all the top pool players.
Never be afraid of any top player. They are all human and they all can be beat. You must come out smoking and put heat on them early. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. They expect you to play tight and choke and lose. They do not expect you to attack them with out mercy. Just come out firing and play with reckless abandon. Show the guy no respect by just running all over him. If you are able to do that in the first game or two it can shake him up so it can lead to a very big upset. It is your only chance to win. Play his game and you lose every time.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst if he fails, at least fails while doing greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls called bozos and rail birds who never tee it up and then, know neither victory or defeat.
Teddy Roosevelt.
Paul Newman, in The Color of Money: "Money won is twice as sweet as money earned." FL says always have something riding on every match, it steels the nerves.
W. C. Fields: "Trust everyone-and always cut the cards." You can’t con an honest man. Never wise up a sucker or Give a sausage an even break. Never loan a pool player a penny, but show him where the bank is and send him there.
Quotes from FL. Exercise is not cracked up to be what it really is. If God intended for me to be able to touch my toes he would have put my toes where my knees are now. To prevent sagging when you get old just eat more and it fills out the wrinkles. The trouble with jogging is the ice falls out of my scotch glass. If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my self. I am not afraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens. I would rather be in Philadelphia.

I drink because it makes people more interesting and my wife better looking. It aint easy being me. The problem is I get no respect, tug on tie. I really didn’t say everything I said. I take the 5th on all of it. That’s my story and I’m stickin to it. Don’t even think of suing me. My mouthpiece Louie Da Lip will plead insanity, have me take da 5th, then show I have dementia, Senility, Mental Illness, emotional disability, cognitive dysfunction, psychological disorders, brain damage as a child, Alien abduction and RSB long term abuse plus Alzheimer’s disease. I got a bad bottle of Blue Agave and have not been right since. I will walk in rolling around two steel balls in my hand like Humphrey Bogart in the Cain Mutiny and No jury will convict me. Where are me fookin car keys? My memory is not as sharp as it used to be, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be. I saw nut zing, I know nut zing. I remember nut zing. When you get old they say you lose two things, (1) your memory, (2)…. Senior moment, let me get back to you with that one. I gave up looking for my lost shaker of salt years ago and thank God for wonder dog who leads me back to my motel room every night. You always wondered why I ran on the road with that dog didn’t you? So the question is am I nuts? Probably, any body who plays pool for a living is nuts, and if you play the game as long as I have you then become nuts. That one is a given, just ask Earl.
There is a very fine line that divides genius and madness. A genius walks on both sides of that line all of his life.

"All of us are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
I get no respect; tug on tie, that’s the entire problem, no respect. It aint easy bein me.
May peace be with you and me, and all of Gods blessings descend upon you.
God Bless you and God bless America.
You only go around once so make the most of it while you are here. You have a long way to go and a short time to get there. Be sure to take the time to smell the flowers along the way. Keep your head when all around you are losing theirs. When you lose your head, your ass soon follows. Hang loose, mello out, and play the game of life like pool, fast and loose.
“When you are called home and stand in judgment in front of St Peter and his angels he will not care how many times you won or you lost. He will only ask you how well did you play your game and how true were you to it? It is now about how many tin cups you won, but about how many friends you acquired and how many people you made love you along the way.” FL.
“The longer I play this game the harder it becomes.” Bobby Jones Jr, 1929 just before he won the grand slam, a feat no other player has been able to duplicate.
“When I first came on tour in my early 20’s I played the top courses in the country and played many of them in the low 60’s saying they are so easy. I came back to play them 20 years later and said I can’t believe how hard they are to make par on.” Johnny Miller.
“This is why 9 ball is a young mans game, because they are too stupid to understand how tough it really is. Fast Larry.”
Come chat with Larry live at www.poolchat.net. Do not miss the Encyclopedia of pool, over 200 instruction articles now up on www.poolchat.net and it’s all free. Come to Atlanta and be video taped in a 7 million dollar state of the art facility in a private room with 4 gold crowns with Larry one on one. A full day is only $350 which is only $43 an hr, every one else is charging double or triple this. It is rated as the top teaching facility in the world. 770-381-6609 puts you on the schedule, or wait for FL to show up as he is a pro UPA touring player and appears coast to coast and catch him when he comes in town.
About FL’s 20 world records, some try and dispute them, FL’s answer is you have two choice’s here, you can believe it, or you can believe it not, FL does not really give a damn which one you get on because he knows he did them all and is done fighting any one about them. He proved every one of them by the Guinness world book of records standards back in the mid 90’s. On each record, a full press release, with the video tape and signed affidavits of the witnesses were sent out to over 175 interested parties in the industry. 18 of his 20 records were set not in a pool hall, but at Georgia Tech University and filmed by an independent studio, TTN. Nobody had ever proved any thing as complete and perfect as Larry did.
To him it’s now a mute point dude. He goes out to his glory knowing what he did. He offered to bet any one 10K to 300K he could pass a lie detector test he did all that he said he did and from 1993 when this offer hit the streets till today, over a decade and a half and not one scum bum took the bet. FL put his fortune, where his mouth was and defending what he did with his life savings. If he was a fraud, somebody would have called his bluff and became rich. Those who falsely accused him were backed down by him and exposed as the real frauds and liars. They were all just jealous punks who were all exposed as nobodies who only wanted to trash those who were what they could never be, real pro’s who could really play.
A prophet is never recognized or understood in his home land. Jesus Christ, 30 AD.

The Hustler movie, 1961:
At Finley’s mansion SARAH says: Don't wear a mask, Eddie. You don't have to.(points to Bert) That's Turk, Eddie, the man who broke your
thumbs. Only he's not going to break your thumbs. He'll break your heart, your guts. And for the same reason -- 'cause he hates you,
'cause of what you are. 'Cause of what you have and he hasn't.
This explains the jealous actions of many people on the pool chat boards. They can’t play, they hate those who can. Later back at the hotel: In the bathroom mirror we see Bert asleep on his bed. The sheets are rumpled and tossed about. Then we see Sarah, in her slip, enter the
bathroom and shut the door. She takes out her lipstick and scrawls
across the image of herself in the glass
"Perverted, twisted,crippled." She underlines the word "crippled."
Those 3 words, describes the pool world Fast Larry came up in and it’s his goal in life to help change that image and see a new generation of pro pool players get respect and finally play for and earn serious money which they deserve. He want’s to see pool become the great sport it was when he first picked up a cue in the 1940’s. When the top Billiard player had the same respect and the same fame as all the top athletes in the USA then. Add up the incomes of the world champion boxer, Dempsey, Tennis star Tilden, Golfer Bobby Jones, football player Jim Thorpe and baseball legend Babe Ruth and a billiard player made more than all of them combined, His name was Willie Hoppe. He was making a million a year in l908 and no pool player since then has.

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FASTLARRY, on Dec 21 2007, 08:28 PM, said:

Getting pumped up, excited, is great for running sports like Tennis, basketball, football, baseball, etc. Droping adrenalin is a helper. In pool it is a disaster. You have to keep cool and not let your self get excited. Anger and all emotions must be tightly controlled.


Adrenalin 1-7-04 , rev 11-2-06, CR, Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved. 6 pages. Czm, upm, bpn, rsb, ppt, btt, isp.


The noun "adrenalin" has 1 sense in WordNet.
1. epinephrine, epinephrin, adrenaline, Adrenalin -- (a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action)

The adrenal gland is a very important organ in the human body. The body has two adrenal glands, one riding on top of each Kidney. They are also called suparnenals and they can do super things. They have two parts, the medulla inner core and the cortex outer shell.
The medulola is controlled by the nervous system. Nerve signals prompt the medulla to secrete epinephrine adrenalin and norepinphrine into the blood. These are extremely powerful drugs that work very fast to help the body adjust to sudden stresses.
The cortex is controlled by the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland stimulates the cortex to secrete hormones into the blood as well. Some of these hormones including cortisol and aldosterone help regulate salt and sugar balances in the body. These balances are so important that a person would die if they were not constantly maintained. The beauty is this works automatically with out our control.

Adrenalin is a registered trade name for the drug epinephrine, which is a hormone that is normally secreted into the blood by the adrenal glands when there is a stress command placed. Feel stress, the drug is dropped.
In the body, it is trying to regulate proper blood pressure at a normal level until the brains says dump the main load; we have a crisis, main line this guy now.

When a person becomes angry or frightened the adrenal glands pour large amounts of epinephyrine into the blood. It works very quickly and has a sudden impact. It is Gods design for primitive man to see a Lion that wants to have him for lunch, and get a sudden super human burst of energy so he can run to the tree for safety. In primitive man this was a very cool tool, in modern man, it can be more of a curse than a helper.

There are many reports of small women seeing a car jack slip and fall on their child working on a car and a 100 lb lady lifts the car up so he can escape. Super human things can be done when this super drug main lines your veins. It also sends all of your emotions totally bonkers. Most of us have had someone cut us off in traffic and flip us the bird and felt rage go wild, people kill each other from road rage all the time. That was an adrenal drop. When rage hits and the drug drops, you can be mentally insane for 30 seconds. When you feel rage, that is why the old saying, close your eyes and slowly count to 10, that is allowing the first rush of the drug, the most powerful jolt, to slowly begin to dissipate. The hormones being dropped as well are meant to make the body more efficient for fight or flight. That’s great news if you want to duke it out in a bar or run to a tree from a hungry Lion.

This can be good for a football, basket ball or tennis player who run to win. It is however death to a golfer or pool player who can stand there and look at the ball for minutes before striking it. That is why you see so much choking and collapses coming down the stretch in both games. We have too much time to think about it and set up the choke.
If you are playing pool and get angry or scared you can cause a full adrenal drop, you are now toast. Kiss your bippy goodbye. They can stick a fork in your behind because you are now well done.

The epinephrine causes the muscles in the walls of the arties to contract, thus slowing the bleeding from the expected wounds from the fight or the Lion attack so you won’t bleed to death. The drug relaxes muscles in the bronchi, which are the large air passages into the lungs so you can have more air to run farther faster. Everything has changed all of your touch and feel is gone. You can’t hit your butt with a broom and have no clue where ###### is now going. Your entire nervous system is spiked through the roof. Your heart is now racing and your have no fight to perform or no tree to run to, all you have is your veins now filled with this powerful drug and every system in your cpu is screaming red alert, red alert.

Now tell me how you are going to play pool with all that going on. The answer is, you are not. You are done. Depending on the situation, the amount of the drop can vary a lot, from a full main line to a lighter amount. You must learn to recognize the symptoms and realize when you get hit with a drop. I can remember when this used to happen to me before I got it under control I would be sitting in a chair and my arm would be shaking so violently I would have to hold it still so nobody would see it. You vision can blur and you can become mentally confused. You can cripple your self so you can barely play or run 2 balls.

There is a second crippling affect that strikes the upper level players. I remember once I was gambling with a top stick who I had always had problems beating and got loose and ran 6 racks in a row on him in a row I was so excited about it, finally I got to drop this bum and I was so pumped up that during the7th rack I went brain dead. You just stand there like a statue unable to move like a deer in the road blinded by headlights.

I asked my surgeon pal who checks all of my articles for accuracy that have medical terms in them what happened to me and he explained to me how the brain works is simple. I had too much data coming in to the central cpu. Too much emotion and cpu could not process it all so to prevent blowing a fuse or a melt down burning wires cpu just threw a circuit breaker which shut me down which explains me standing there frozen. I can’t move because I am waiting for instructions on what to do and none is coming in. This crippling affect can also be prevented as well by just staying calm and not letting your emotions run wild. So when and if that occurs to you and you see your self frozen and can not move or think, stop the game now. Make an excuse and head to the head and sit on the stool and calm down by deep breathing exercises. You all need to buy tapes and books on this subject and learn how to do this and how to meditate. It is a vital tool to own. Never play on when this or an adrenalin rush hits you. When you see the signs realize you screwed up and you just screwed your game into the dirt. Buy time to recover and to come back and play.

Stop what you are doing immediately. Make some excuse like you have just become very ill and have to take an immediate break. Go into the rest room, open a stall, go in & lock the door and sit on the stool until the drug wears off. If they come looking for you and ask what is going on say I have a case of the trots, must be the bad Chinese food I ate. Work with me here please, I’ll be out in just a minute. Most will buy this lie. It’s lie, lose or DQ, your choice of the three out comes. I prefer the little white lie my self.

That might take 5 or 10 minutes. If you continue to play in that condition, you will lose every time. I would risk a DQ than go on and play to a certain defeat. If you continue to play after the drop by the time the drug wears off, you are now so far behind you can’t catch up or the match is over. If you are forced back on the floor with out a full recovery then go into a massive slow down until you feel your have returned to normal. Just sit on the stool with your eyes closed and deep breath trying to relax between shots. Just slowly calm your self down and slow down your heart beat and breathing. Take a full minute between every shot. Stall all you can.

Before I gained control of my emotions by using Zen, I remember I was playing a world champion and I wanted to do well, his name was Willie. I did not expect to win, I just wanted some respect. I had played him once before and almost beat the guy, running 75 out of the chute in a game of 100 when I got the first shot. He came to the table and ran 100 and out on me, I was shocked by that. I was not scared of him the first match, but when I played him the 2nd time I was now terrified of the guy. I can remember sitting there waiting to play and I was so scared my leg was shaking. It began to shake so bad I had to hold it down. I was literally falling apart, my emotions turned to mush. I let adrenal drop and when I got the first shot, I only ran 12 and missed. Mosconi ran 100 and out again on me.

I played great the first match being loose and confident. The 2nd match I played like a dog. That is what happens to you when you lose control of your emotions, you are finished. The lesson I learned that day was never fear any man in any game. So you lose, they don’t chop off your head. The only chance you have to win is to play them totally fast and loose. After that sank in, I beat a dozen world champions just by coming after them hard, fast and loose out of the chute, showing no fear. I never got to play Mosconi a 3rd time, not that I might have won. During the time I played him, he was virtually UN beatable, because he feared no one. That little ###### would be virtually running around the table and when he would trot by he would give you this little smirk of disrespect which meant sausage, I am the man and you are going down. He would whip the eye of the Tiger on you for sure. He would set off all kinds of emotions in you. Fear, anger, hate, which are killers to a pool player. Never let fear of losing to anyone affects you. Fear is your greatest enemy; you must remain calm at all times. No fear, just say it over and over when you play.

Jimmy Caras who was one of my life long teacher and also Irving Crane who I never worked with but told me the same thing. 90% of who they played came to the table defeated. They lost badly because they were scared and choked. They said to beat most of them all they had to do was dazzle them with a little run and they folded faster than a Kmart blue light special $2 car table. They expect you to fold and 90% of you comply. They are loose and confident, you are up tight and choking like a dog during the lag.

You must be conscious of your little pouch of drugs sitting on top of your Kidneys just waiting to dump into your veins, let that happen, your are a loser. Now you know it’s vital you remain calm and relaxed and not let anything going on around you to affect you. Number one; have no fear of your opponent, so what he’s this or that, all he can do is win, life goes on after that for you. If you are gambling, some roadies will get aggressive if you’re winning and get in your face to cause an argument, some can get nasty, even threatening. They want you to drop your load and go off on it, that is what that is all about. Be smarter than that, just smile in their face and scold them for being rude and ask them politely to sit down. When they see they cannot provoke you into anger and rage, they won’t waste their time doing it again.

See Zen as your shield, it protects you from these emotions, keeps them at bay, and you will never have a disastrous adrenal drop ever again if you are a Zen player, it is impossible for that to occur. Just keep smiling and humming your tune, whistle while you work, and be happy in your work running out on the other guy so he does not get a shot. At the pro level, 90% of the game is mental, mental control of your emotions and concentration and focus. You learn to keep your emotions on a level keel where they never go up or down. If you dog the 9 to win a game you sit down feeling no emotions. No anger. If you win the game the same thing. You must learn to not let your emotions spike.

Even the total beginner should begin learning these vital concepts and techniques from the get go. Never ever beat your self or shoot your own self in the foot. If you are a league player, you see this happen in almost every match played. You sit back from afar and probably wonder why, how can these people do these things, how can they dog a game ball that’s a hanger in the hole, then you get up and do the same thing your self. It is all because you people do not control you and your emotions; everything around you is controlling you. Until you put a stop to this madness and take control of you and your destiny, nothing changes.

My teacher Minnesota Fats a half-century ago said to me and I quote, “Only a sausage, a sucker puts heat on himself. Why would you want to do that, make your self into a loser, that don’t make no sense. Why would you shoot your own self in your foot or cripple your self so you can not play. How dumb is that? You must learn how to control your emotions. Pressure in self-induced, only you can put it on, only you can take it off. It’s a feel game, you can’t play it if you lock your self up tight. You have to play it with a natural flow, fast and loose, nice and calm with a smile on your face when you see the game ball, because you know you’re a winner and you never dog the game ball, so pay day just arrived. “You say to your self, I never miss the game ball for da cash, ah yes indeed. When it falls you say, how sweet it is to the sausage you just beat. It’s all about confidence. That you can not have too much of.
So just relax and play fast and loose. Just say, no fear and freewheel on the other guy. Never fear losing or looking bad. Just play your best stick and let the out come happen naturally. Pool is simple, you win some, you lose some. Get used to losing, nobody wins every time. NEVER FEAR LOSING.

“There are only two types of players. Those who keep their nerves under control and win championships and those who do not.” Harry Vardon English golf champion.

Many of you have a disease. As you know it is incurable. You will have it till the day you die. You are ashamed of having it so you hide your affliction from every one you know. It is called chokeritis. Now Doctor Larry can’t cure your disease or give you a magic pill to end it but I can write you a prescription for you that can reduce the out breaks. Yes, every one chokes. I have even seen Mosconi choke like a dog and Tiger Woods as well but they catch their selves doing this and pull out of it fast and resume normal play.

Not all do recover. I saw Arnold Palmer once choke so badly he hit two ground balls beheading gofers on the 18th hole to lose like a dog in Atlanta. . I also saw AP with a 6 stroke lead at the US Open blow it coming down the stretch with only 6 holes to play. I also saw AP play like a God and win 60 championships. We saw Greg Norman do the same thing at the Masters with a 6 stroke lead where he was playing perfect and suddenly he is playing like a 20 handicap. That is what out of control emotions can do to any one no matter whom they are. They can turn a God into a hacker.

Like in AA you must get up in front of your pals and confess, I am a choking dog. I have the disease Chokeritis and I am now in therapy with FL trying to make a recovery. Yell it out to the multitudes and get it off your chest. No more secrets or hidden fears. Come out of the closet Brucie. You must stop hiding the fact you are a choking dog. Once you admit this then you are on the road to recovery where you slowly become a winner and then one day your pals give you your new handle you earned, the ice man. You will then be feared by all and they will be choking when they play you.

Now your goal is to prevent choking by stopping adrenalin dropping and playing in this calm slow demeanor in a state of relaxed grace. You want to learn how to drop into dead stroke, or even the zone. The more you practice this the less you choke. Remember chokeritis can not be cured, it can only be controlled. When you do choke and lose badly don’t get up set about it. Just study why and how it occurred and try to learn from that mistake and not allow it to happen again. Type B people do better with this than anxious nervous type A’s. So when you play pool, hang loose dude. Stay cool and don’t let any thing or any one upset or affect you. Just whistle while you work and run out on the other guy. If you don’t miss then there is no way the other guy can win.

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FAST LARRY POOL. SHOW, CLINCS, WORLD WIDE TOUR PRO PLAYER.


www.fastlarrypool.com best prices in the billiard store, 200 free articles on how to play in the encyclopedia. www dot fast larry pool dot com. Enough teachings to fill up 4 full books and it’s all for free. Just log in and enjoy. 2006.

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Well over 3,000 successful private lessons have been taught since 1993. Over 20,000 students taught in clinics all over the world in over 70 countries. Guaranteed satisfaction. You get what you come for or the lesson is free. Larry says you have to shoot a good stick to teach an advanced lesson or to tear down a pros game and put it back in shape. He is known as a high end finisher but he also takes on total beginners.

Larry plays on six pro pool tours. His tour 9 ball cards are: the UPA, the men’s main 9 ball tour where he ranks 35th in the world in mid 2006. He also plays on the Viking Pro 9 ball tour, Florida 9 ball tour, SE pro 9 ball tour, the Senior Tour and the APTSA (Artistic Pool and Trick Shot Association world tour. Larry is also listed on the tour stats as having one of the highest straight pool runs in history of 274 balls which is directly behind Ralph Greenleaf’s record.
He holds the world record for the high run in rotation, 5 racks, 75 balls. His high run of 9 racks in 9 ball was only done twice on the pro PBT tour.
His high run in 8 ball is 8 racks. He is regarded as the greatest shot maker of all time by many hall of famers and world champions. Einstein said there are 6 million possible shots and Larry has made all 6 million of them. He has made and duplicated every shot ever made on a table during the last two centuries. He holds 20 world records in the sport.
Fax 770-381-1916. POOL QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND FREE INSTRUCTION IS ON www.poolchat.net In the ask the pros forum.
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Email fastlarry@bellsouth.net fast Larry at bell south dot net.
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May God bless and peace be with you. May there now be peace between us. If you are a real pool player, then fast truly loves you. May the wind be always on your back and all 9 balls fall.
VENI VIDI VICI, OMNIA VINCIT AMOR. “Latin for “I came, I saw, I conquered, love conquerors all. Yes I really did do it all and you can believe it, or not. If you don’t believe it, C’est La Vie. " Shoot straight, innovate, never give up, just run out on the other guy then there is no way for you to lose. believe it, or not. If you don’t believe it, C’est La Vie. " "Winners make things happen. Losers let things happen."Winners NEVER QUIT, QUITTERS NEVER WIN. They say FL can not play. Then explain why he is on the Upa web site ranked 35th in the world in mid 2006. All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788

You must develop a pure perfect stroke you can trust and that will take a coach and a advanced level teacher. When you build that perfect stroke and get in dead punch you can now go play some serious pool. Now the game is won and lost between the 6” of your ears. You next master the mental side of the game.
Memorize this and when you need it, recite it to your self in the chair. It will pull you many future victories you would have let slip away.
To become great, you must learn to reach deep down inside to pull out that extra edge it will take for you to win. There is a hero inside you just waiting to be set free who will rise to the occasion and play at a level you have never seen or dreamed possible before. You must summon him, command him to rise and to go win. A true champion digs down inside and pulls up and out the greater you inside.
Crunch time is that point where the winner steps up to the plate and takes charge and vanquishes the loser he is playing. You must dig down deep for that winner inside you and turn him loose. Let him see the finish line, smell the victory, grab the bit in his mouth and runs for the roses. Let that big dawg hunt, just get out of his way and follow him home. The loser gives up, see’s no way to win, spits the bit and rolls over. “FL”

You must learn to control your emotions. Fatty taught me only a sucker puts heat on his own self. Only you put it on and only you can take it off. Why shoot your own self in the foot so you can't win so just relax and play fast and loose. Just say, no fear and freewheel on the other guy. Never fear losing or looking bad. Just play your best stick and let the out come happen naturally. Pool is simple, you win some, you lose some. Get used to losing, nobody wins every time. NEVER FEAR LOSING. Just run out on the other guy then there is no way you can lose.
“There are only two types of players. Those who keep their nerves under control and win championships and those who do not.” Harry Vardon English golf champion.




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Lead me, follow me or get the **** out of my way. Do one of the three please? Come celebrate the wonder of this beautiful game with me and become a student of it.
Be my friend, walk my way, flow with what I teach you and you will soar like the Eagle into levels of excellence you never dreamed possible. Play by feel, not by systems; do not make a simple game complicated. Go with what you know, go with what is natural.

"Winners make things happen. Losers let things happen." In the words of Vince Lombardi, "When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened." Vince said you’ve got to pay the price. Winning is not a sometime thing, it’s an all the time thing. Winning is a habit, unfortunately so is losing. Vince Lombardi once said, “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of profession or endeavor. Fast Eddy said about the same thing in the color of money.
Winning is everything. Winning is the only thing. If you can dream it, see it, believe it, you can do it and you can be it. You can perform totally out of the box deep into the Zone, one with the shot, freewheeling fast and loose with no fear. Then you are a person with no limits who can achieve anything he can imagine that a human body is capable of producing. “FL”
Show me a guy who does not mind losing and I will show you a sausage. Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser. “FL” “Nice guys finish last” quote from Lou Durocher
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." – Yoda
Conquer your fear and you conquer the game, the battle, your life and your fear of death. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander The Great 320 BC.
When you play, repeat over and over, No fear. Just freewheel and let the good times roll. Keep holding the cue as lightly as possible and keep saying, fast and loose.

It is all about visualization, focus, concentration and playing in the zone. You just see it, feel it, do it: It does not get any deeper than this? Play pool with an empty mind. “FL”

“Flow with what ever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting what ever you are doing and what ever comes your way.”
Chuang-Tzu.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

Fortune favors the brave. Virgil, Aeneid Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC)

Conquer your fear and you conquer the game, the battle, your life and your fear of death. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander The Great 320 BC.

For a man thinks within himself, so he is.” Proverbs 23:7 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13

In order to master pool you must first learn how to master yourself and your emotions. “For to conquer in battle a thousand men a thousand times, means you have now conquered yourself and you are now the greatest of warriors” Dharmapada.

This is a feel game and a mind game. When the mind is pure, pure perfect pool will follow. Perfect pool comes from being taught how to practice perfect. Being in dead punch is the ultimate trip and reward from that. “FL”

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Rack em sausage, Go play fast and loose. Ride em hard, put em up wet, leave the ladies smiling. Live free, die well owing no man anything. May you be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you’re dead? In time, it’s all dust in the wind anyway. Don’t take your self, or anything too serious, just be happy and healthy. Laughter good whiskey and song is the best medicine. If you have a library, a garden, a good woman and a barrel of Scotch, you have all you need.
Rudolph Wanderone Sr, Minnesota Fats father, told fatty at age 5, a lucky man lives the sporting life. Never do anything that makes you unhappy. An unhappy man will not live long. If you are happy, you are a rich man. If a man has his health, a roof over his head, good food and friends what else does he need? He is wealthy beyond compare. Every thing on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. You now must learn what you mission is and fulfill your destiny. Pay your Karma off and be clean for the next go around.
Aristotle said the main purpose is to survive to reproduce. Once that is accomplished then the main goal in life is to achieve happiness. The Dali Lama says the main goal in life is to achieve enlightenment. The 2nd goal is to achieve happiness and you and only you are responsible for this. Seek it in you and do not expect others to give it to you. Any thing you wish to do that brings you happiness, or to others, must be under taken. The question of whether it is profitable should never be asked. If it loses money, it still must be done. If you can find a thing to do which brings you happiness and makes you money you are indeed a lucky person. Your third goal is to find your soul mate. Seek out a woman you like who makes you happy and who you like to spend time with. Do not seek out beauty or follow lust as once that cools, your relationship has been made on sand which soon crumbles into dust.
Play the best, hustle the rest. Be a locksmith. Never play hew haw, it will ruin you. It is not how good you play but how good you match up. If you see a sausage and know you can give him the 7 and the snap and rob him drunk, do not bet until you sell him to give you the 7 and the snap. Do this and you never lose and sleep on silk sheets at night.
Just never wise up a chump or give a sucker an even break, W.C. Fields.
Never give weight. Spot, what is that, you never spot nobody nuttin. Spot is your little dog who got run over by a Mack truck in front of the motel 6 in Lodi. You say, stop talking about spot, every time you do I get tears in my eyes and wont be able to play.
When you clean out the joint and they are all standing there complaining you hustled us and took all our money. You say to them, grasshopper, I have a stable of hot ho’s to support who depend on me to bring home the loot so they can have a good time. So the needs of the many, you sausages, are out weighed by the needs of the one, me. Bow in reverence as you walk backwards towards the door, then turn running out the door and leap in the rear door of your caddy head first which was open and is pointed into the traffic with its bright lights on. You now say tell the ho driving, its 100 miles to Chicago, we have a half tank of gas, a full pack of cigarettes, we are both wearing sun glasses, it is dark, hit it.
"When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same." eighteenth-century Japanese Zen poet Ryokan, All the great teachers in pool and there are very few, end up teaching the same things.

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925 "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

All that is certain in life are you are born, you will die, you will pay taxes and everything you now know and love will change. Change is the one certainty you must learn to live with and accept in your life. The only thing certain in life is change. Do not fight something you have no control over. Gracefully accept change when it comes. “FL”

Nuttin sticks, everything changes, everyone leaves you. You gotta play it big while you got it. You gotta be big, hit it big, miss it big, every thing you do has gotta be big. “Babe Ruth”.

Be sure to take the time, to smell the flowers along the way. Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. Wander in wonder of life and follow La Vie Dansante. As my grand master said and I quote as a loyal parrot head, why don’t we get drunk and screw?
It took me years to learn how to beat and avoid hangovers, just stay drunk and don’t sober up. Never act your age, stay young forever. FL is 29; he plans to stay 29 forever. His kids are now older than he is and do not understand him at all. In 7 more years his grand children will be older than him. Fl says, when you begin to act your age, it’s all over for you. The number one cause of death in old people is retirement and boredom. You must always have a hobby or a job, a project or a hottie your old lady does not know about on the side to keep you alive and on earth with a purpose.
I want to die being totally alive with my boots on. I don’t want to die being brain dead for a decade with my boots off and rotting in a bed on a pan. I want to die on top of a 19 year old hottie yelling who’s your daddy, Bonsai just as I catch the big one. Use your imagination on that one. If you gotta go dudes, go out with a bang hangin 10. Or when I die, I want to die like my father-- who died peacefully in his sleep with his boots on and not screaming like all the passengers riding in his Lincoln Town car who were going downhill on the interstate at 85mph at the time coming down out of the mountains. Die happy and you lived a good life. Live you life daily with honor and pride in your actions and you will sleep like a baby. Always tell the truth and you don’t have to remember your lies. Be a man of honor and integrity.
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. “Quote Indian Chief Aupumut.”
FL say’s only the good die young, God allows all pool hustlers to live till they are 85 so they can suffer. If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my self. I had a **** good run and more time here than I expected or planned for so if it all ends tomorrow, no tears, I lived 3 life times in the same span a normal man lives one. When I die I want to be cremated and my ashes sprinkled inside a Super Wal-Mart, then I’ll know my kids will finally come to see me twice a week. Actually my ashes will be sprinkled off the far point of lovers Key in Bonita Springs, Florida.
There was always only three things important to me. Panther Piss, ***** and Pool, the big 3. Get those 3 right and then as Lamata said, the rest of it don’t matta no how. I became the master of all three and the rest then just fell in line some how. Old Scotch, young broads and a good pool game, ah yes indeed my boy, what else is there to live for. The scotch keeps you mellow, the dolls keep you smiling and pool keeps your pockets filled with green lettuce so you don’t have to work or wear no suit.
When you are riding it home, can see the finish line, don't spit da bit. Begin beating the *** with your riding whip and yell out like Tarzan C’est si bon, si bon, si bon, who's yo daddy. When she screams FL, don't take it too hard, life goes on. C’est La Vie.
I have seen it all, done it all, been everywhere, and now can’t remember any of it. I wonder why I spent all that time and money doing it in the first place. I should have just stayed home.
Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.
I danced the last Tango in Paris
Took the last chopper out of Saigon
Took the first fast boat to China
And there's still so much to be done
I had a third world girl in Caracas
With a pistol in each hand
She always kept me covered
As we moved from land to land.
I stashed my cash in Cayman land and
Lived to dance and ######.
I had a **** good run on Wall Street
With my high fashion model wife.
I wore out running all over the Americas crashed
And burned three planes.
From coast to coast. I ran through a lot of good women
And drove them all insane.
I woke up dry beneath the African sky
Just me and my Swiss Army knife. A legend never dies.
Remember the words of the great Emiliano Zapata . . .
it is better to die on your feet, than live on your knees. . .
I am just a simple teacher. All that I now know is that I now know nothing. I am nothing but a good ball banger who teaches a good lesson and puts on a good trick shot show that is the only two things I do well in life. "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking
Aristotle said “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
Fast Larry Guninger, real man, real pool player, real American, real Christian.” God bless the land of the free and of the brave. Fáilte Roimh Cheartúcháin, Go dtuga Dia suaimhneas síoraí dó. Politically he is John fookin Wayne and just a little to the right of Attila the Hun. He say, I ain’t runnin for gov-nor so you all can take all that politically correct bull she-yit and stuff it where da sun don’t shine. I tell it like it is. Some of you, can’t deal with the real truth.

Minnesota Fats: Larry’s teacher said? "When I played pool I was like a psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions." "You don't learn from smart people, you learn from idiots. Watch what they do, and then don't do it." Learn to be a lock smith. If you should be giving the 7 and the snap, don’t play for money unless you sell the pigeon he should give you the 7 and the snap. Then you never lose. Never put heat on your self, pressure is self induced; only you can put it on, only you can take it off. The toughest player mentally wins when skills are equal. "Golf is 90% mental and 10% physical." -- Ben Hogan said "I am the toughest golfer mentally." -- Tiger Woods agrees as do all the top pool players.
Never be afraid of any top player. They are all human and they all can be beat. You must come out smoking and put heat on them early. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. They expect you to play tight and choke and lose. They do not expect you to attack them with out mercy. Just come out firing and play with reckless abandon. Show the guy no respect by just running all over him. If you are able to do that in the first game or two it can shake him up so it can lead to a very big upset. It is your only chance to win. Play his game and you lose every time.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst if he fails, at least fails while doing greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls called bozos and rail birds who never tee it up and then, know neither victory or defeat.
Teddy Roosevelt.
Paul Newman, in The Color of Money: "Money won is twice as sweet as money earned." FL says always have something riding on every match, it steels the nerves.
W. C. Fields: "Trust everyone-and always cut the cards." You can’t con an honest man. Never wise up a sucker or Give a sausage an even break. Never loan a pool player a penny, but show him where the bank is and send him there.
Quotes from FL. Exercise is not cracked up to be what it really is. If God intended for me to be able to touch my toes he would have put my toes where my knees are now. To prevent sagging when you get old just eat more and it fills out the wrinkles. The trouble with jogging is the ice falls out of my scotch glass. If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my self. I am not afraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens. I would rather be in Philadelphia.

I drink because it makes people more interesting and my wife better looking. It aint easy being me. The problem is I get no respect, tug on tie. I really didn’t say everything I said. I take the 5th on all of it. That’s my story and I’m stickin to it. Don’t even think of suing me. My mouthpiece Louie Da Lip will plead insanity, have me take da 5th, then show I have dementia, Senility, Mental Illness, emotional disability, cognitive dysfunction, psychological disorders, brain damage as a child, Alien abduction and RSB long term abuse plus Alzheimer’s disease. I got a bad bottle of Blue Agave and have not been right since. I will walk in rolling around two steel balls in my hand like Humphrey Bogart in the Cain Mutiny and No jury will convict me. Where are me fookin car keys? My memory is not as sharp as it used to be, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be, my memory is not as sharp as it used to be. I saw nut zing, I know nut zing. I remember nut zing. When you get old they say you lose two things, (1) your memory, (2)…. Senior moment, let me get back to you with that one. I gave up looking for my lost shaker of salt years ago and thank God for wonder dog who leads me back to my motel room every night. You always wondered why I ran on the road with that dog didn’t you? So the question is am I nuts? Probably, any body who plays pool for a living is nuts, and if you play the game as long as I have you then become nuts. That one is a given, just ask Earl.
There is a very fine line that divides genius and madness. A genius walks on both sides of that line all of his life.

"All of us are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
I get no respect; tug on tie, that’s the entire problem, no respect. It aint easy bein me.
May peace be with you and me, and all of Gods blessings descend upon you.
God Bless you and God bless America.
You only go around once so make the most of it while you are here. You have a long way to go and a short time to get there. Be sure to take the time to smell the flowers along the way. Keep your head when all around you are losing theirs. When you lose your head, your *** soon follows. Hang loose, mello out, and play the game of life like pool, fast and loose.
“When you are called home and stand in judgment in front of St Peter and his angels he will not care how many times you won or you lost. He will only ask you how well did you play your game and how true were you to it? It is now about how many tin cups you won, but about how many friends you acquired and how many people you made love you along the way.” FL.
“The longer I play this game the harder it becomes.” Bobby Jones Jr, 1929 just before he won the grand slam, a feat no other player has been able to duplicate.
“When I first came on tour in my early 20’s I played the top courses in the country and played many of them in the low 60’s saying they are so easy. I came back to play them 20 years later and said I can’t believe how hard they are to make par on.” Johnny Miller.
“This is why 9 ball is a young mans game, because they are too stupid to understand how tough it really is. Fast Larry.”
Come chat with Larry live at www.poolchat.net. Do not miss the Encyclopedia of pool, over 200 instruction articles now up on www.poolchat.net and it’s all free. Come to Atlanta and be video taped in a 7 million dollar state of the art facility in a private room with 4 gold crowns with Larry one on one. A full day is only $350 which is only $43 an hr, every one else is charging double or triple this. It is rated as the top teaching facility in the world. 770-381-6609 puts you on the schedule, or wait for FL to show up as he is a pro UPA touring player and appears coast to coast and catch him when he comes in town.
About FL’s 20 world records, some try and dispute them, FL’s answer is you have two choice’s here, you can believe it, or you can believe it not, FL does not really give a **** which one you get on because he knows he did them all and is done fighting any one about them. He proved every one of them by the Guinness world book of records standards back in the mid 90’s. On each record, a full press release, with the video tape and signed affidavits of the witnesses were sent out to over 175 interested parties in the industry. 18 of his 20 records were set not in a pool hall, but at Georgia Tech University and filmed by an independent studio, TTN. Nobody had ever proved any thing as complete and perfect as Larry did.
To him it’s now a mute point dude. He goes out to his glory knowing what he did. He offered to bet any one 10K to 300K he could pass a lie detector test he did all that he said he did and from 1993 when this offer hit the streets till today, over a decade and a half and not one scum bum took the bet. FL put his fortune, where his mouth was and defending what he did with his life savings. If he was a fraud, somebody would have called his bluff and became rich. Those who falsely accused him were backed down by him and exposed as the real frauds and liars. They were all just jealous punks who were all exposed as nobodies who only wanted to trash those who were what they could never be, real pro’s who could really play.
A prophet is never recognized or understood in his home land. Jesus Christ, 30 AD.

The Hustler movie, 1961:
At Finley’s mansion SARAH says: Don't wear a mask, Eddie. You don't have to.(points to Bert) That's Turk, Eddie, the man who broke your
thumbs. Only he's not going to break your thumbs. He'll break your heart, your guts. And for the same reason -- 'cause he hates you,
'cause of what you are. 'Cause of what you have and he hasn't.
This explains the jealous actions of many people on the pool chat boards. They can’t play, they hate those who can. Later back at the hotel: In the bathroom mirror we see Bert asleep on his bed. The sheets are rumpled and tossed about. Then we see Sarah, in her slip, enter the
bathroom and shut the door. She takes out her lipstick and scrawls
across the image of herself in the glass
"Perverted, twisted,crippled." She underlines the word "crippled."
Those 3 words, describes the pool world Fast Larry came up in and it’s his goal in life to help change that image and see a new generation of pro pool players get respect and finally play for and earn serious money which they deserve. He want’s to see pool become the great sport it was when he first picked up a cue in the 1940’s. When the top Billiard player had the same respect and the same fame as all the top athletes in the USA then. Add up the incomes of the world champion boxer, Dempsey, Tennis star Tilden, Golfer Bobby Jones, football player Jim Thorpe and baseball legend Babe Ruth and a billiard player made more than all of them combined, His name was Willie Hoppe. He was making a million a year in l908 and no pool player since then has.

You run into jerks in pool halls you want to kill. Trying to keep from doing that is not easy. When they get to me now, I just take off. Not letting them upset me means I will probably live longer.

[pool2da]

That is the reason I quit playing pool in bars in Texas. There are a lot of people not walking this earth because of a quarter on a pool table. So I got where I only played with people I knew and never a stranger. Now I just quit going to bars at all.

[bostonbillypat]

pool2da, on Dec 22 2007, 08:28 AM, said:

That is the reason I quit playing pool in bars in Texas. There are a lot of people not walking this earth because of a quarter on a pool table. So I got where I only played with people I knew and never a stranger. Now I just quit going to bars at all.

Never play people strange to you unless its for a beer or a buck, something really low steaks. The minute they begin to show anger or hostility, buy them a drink and leave.

Most fellows play sets with their pals for 20 and the money just flows back and forth and at the end of the year most are about even.

[pool2da]

bostonbillypat, on Dec 22 2007, 06:20 PM, said:

Never play people strange to you unless its for a beer or a buck, something really low steaks. The minute they begin to show anger or hostility, buy them a drink and leave.

Most fellows play sets with their pals for 20 and the money just flows back and forth and at the end of the year most are about even.

We have had a lot of fights just over whose quarter is up for the next game. So the easiest way for me to deal with it now is just not go there. In my younger years I dealt with it. Today I don't heal quite as quickly as I once did.

[Pelican]

pool2da, on Dec 26 2007, 02:26 AM, said:

Today I don't heal quite as quickly as I once did.

I knows bout that for sho!

Pel

[ballbanger]

Pelican, on Dec 26 2007, 03:01 PM, said:

I knows bout that for sho!

Pel

Just carry a susan b anthony dollar coin, put it on the rail with the other quarters, then there can be no questions, where your's actually lies. You also have to watch it, or they will steal it.

[pool2da]

ballbanger, on Dec 26 2007, 03:06 PM, said:

Just carry a susan b anthony dollar coin, put it on the rail with the other quarters, then there can be no questions, where your's actually lies. You also have to watch it, or they will steal it.

I could never keep one of those. I kept spending it thinking it was a quarter like every one else.

[biglouieone]

pool2da, on Dec 26 2007, 03:49 PM, said:

I could never keep one of those. I kept spending it thinking it was a quarter like every one else.

Put down a 50 cent piece.