Before I play matches I'm always switching myself on. That's why I have that walk-on music - Two Steps From Hell - they produce really good motivational gladiator-style music. As soon as that music comes on I'm switched on and I'm ready for a brawl!Collection: Motivational
You see stuff that is cheating, no question, and it needs to be sorted out. The biggest thing is moving on the shot by an opponent.Collection: Moving
John Higgins is an absolute legend. He has such a good reputation.
We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.
If you are a single guy and work in a normal job you can get around it. But you can't win professional snooker matches when you are tired.
The years I had the 100 centuries, I should probably have had around 120 because I got addicted like hell to 'Fifa 14.'
I wouldn't say I would have won a lot more tournaments if it wasn't for video games but I think I would have given myself more opportunities to go further in other events.
League of Legends' is banned in my house and rightly so. It is just awful. In the past, I've been staying up and playing it. Then all of a sudden, it is 6 A.M., the birds are tweeting and I'm thinking: 'Oh my God, I've got to get up in a couple of hours to take my son Alexander to school. Then I've got to practise.'
Health comes first before any bonus on offer.
I took coronavirus very seriously.
Not many players have tables at home, they like going to a club and feeling like they're going to a place of work.
With snooker, having three months off could have a huge long-term effect on your game. It's not like football, where there's a huge margin of error with touch and passing and shooting. With snooker you're talking about millimetre precision and your technique can vary a lot if you don't retain muscle memory.
Becoming a dad has been a big change for me - I didn't have any responsibilities before. I obviously practised every day, but there was that luxury of things like watching movies when I wanted or waking up whenever I wanted.
I used to be very lazy in my teens. I didn't practise enough but I was OK when I started really getting into snooker.
I'm a pretty laid-back person but when I first played on TV against Jimmy White at the Masters it was daunting. The more times you play you get used to it and you eventually come to love it.
It's good to be No1 but you'd like to do it the right way, not because of something that might have happened off the table.
Every other sport has player's representation. We don't really have that officially - I know there's like a little players' committee but there's not a players' association, which is what we really need.
I've tried to play within myself but I need adrenaline and need to be pumped up to play well otherwise you will see snoring snooker like that.
I have tried to be that player who plays within himself, but I just can't do that.
I just play my game. I know if I play well I will win.
If I get on a roll then I will steamroll people.
I love the history of the sport and I want to keep keep building my history as a player with more records.
I almost wrote my career off. I wasn't quite good enough and I thought that ship had sailed. But I carried on, won the World Under-21 Championship in 2003 and got the tour card.
When I first came to England I hated football and knew nothing about it. Watching 0-0s and 1-0s having come from Aussie Rules was just dull. The only player I had heard of was David Beckham. But when I was living in Leicester I started watching Match of the Day and really got into Chelsea.
I fell off the tour when I was younger and had to go back home and practise harder and get better.
It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.
I'm good enough to win multiple world titles.
There are lot of tournaments and it's hard when you have a young family.
Being a champion is a dream come true.
There's no way in the world any of the guys who have beaten me would have thought I could do what I've done. I just kept persisting with it.
I was heavily addicted to a game called 'Diablo II.'
I've got quite an addictive personality where if I start doing something I try to do it to the best of my ability.
It's very frustrating when you don't always get the right kind of rub - you watch tennis and know if you play better than the other guy, you win. But that's the game we play. It can create mini-upsets.
Snooker has been really, really tough for me from a personal point of view because to be at the top and to stay at the top you've got to put the hours in.
I absolutely love my cricket. I would watch it six, seven hours a day when Australia were playing. I grew up in a very spoilt era of Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Ricky Ponting and others.
I have developed a nasty habit of losing to the guy who wins the tournament, and that alone makes you think what you could have achieved.
The Worlds was great, Masters was great, but that was sort of mission accomplished with the Triple Crown.
I've been world champion and number one at the same time, which is a brilliant feeling.
I'm always looking to improve as a player and it's very pleasing when you see those improvements.
Snooker is a very good TV sport.
Lifting a major trophy in front of an empty stadium would be a very strange feeling. But then you'd rather do that than not play at all.
When you watch Barcelona play you want to see Lionel Messi score two goals. If he hasn't after 80 minutes you can perhaps get restless.
A long break can cause long-term damage to a player's technique. It can be dangerous for a snooker player to go 2-3 months without even touching a cue.
We don't have that many tournaments so sponsorship from logos is another way of helping boost your income.
The crowd in big venues can really make or crush players.
There needs to be a flat rule where if someone's playing a shot you sit in the chair, and probably more referees need to be a bit sterner with how they apply that rule.
If you're playing a shot and your peripheral vision picks up a player moving as you play the shot, if your vision goes from the object ball to what they're doing, you can miss the shot by several inches.
There are a lot of players who fiddle around with their towel in your shot or they get up out of their chair to see if a ball's on when you're about to play your shot.
It is impossible to play the best of nines and expect the matches to finish on time.
None of the top players like the 128 system at all.