I thought 'How can I stop playing or give myself an excuse to stop playing? So I snapped my cue on Friday. It was quite fun doing it. It's gone.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. Ive never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.

Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry]

I know what I want to do and there's no point giving my secrets away.

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

A child is never the author of his own history.

Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means.

Everything we encounter can have a positive influence in shaping our life when we adopt a lens of Gratitude.

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency

So afraid of taking chances. How you gonna reach the top?

It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.