Jimmy White
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"James Warren" ""Jimmy"" "White", is an English professional snooker player. List of snooker player nicknames/Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his fluid, attacking style of play and popularly referred to as the "People's Champion", White is a multiple World Snooker Championship/World Championship finalist, the IBSF World Snooker Championship/1980 World Amateur Champion, 2009 Six-red World Grand Prix/2009 Six-red World Champion, 2010 World Seniors Championship/2010 World Seniors Champion and World Doubles Championship/1984 World Doubles champion with Alex Higgins.

White's non-world championship achievements include, the UK Championship (snooker)/UK Championship the Masters (snooker)/Masters the World Cup (snooker)/World Cup and Nations Cup (snooker)/Nations Cup, White was also the first left-handed player, and second player overall, to record a maximum break at the World Championship.

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The momentum really shifted when he made that long putt and I think my nerves got the best of me, ... But he played extremely well down the stretch. He deserved to win.

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With a bit of luck, the name Jimmy Brown will be engraved on the Masters trophy at the end of next week.

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If we don't get gasoline to keep our water system running, then we're going to ask people to leave town, ... Our critical need is gas. We've had three incidents of looting because we can't patrol like we need to because there's no gasoline for our police cars.

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I told him I would have too see about paying him, ... He told me not to worry about it.

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This woman was chronically sick and her family called us for help during the storm, but we couldn't put a vehicle on the roads, ... After the winds died down, there was no way to get to her because Highway 15 where she lived was blocked by fallen trees.

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It's funny how the worst of times brings on the best of times.

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I could see stealing bread and milk if your children were hungry, ... But these people are scum.

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I have not come to Sheffield to look at the gardens near the hotel. If I didn't think I could win the World Championship I would go and play golf badly in Spain.

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I just tried to regroup. The only thing I could do was put pressure on him and the only way to do that was to just keep hitting good golf shots. I was able to put together a string right in a row there that really put me in good position to win.

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