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 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.

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.

Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.

Believe in gold and thou shalt never settle for silver.

I like to expand myself as far as watching movies.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.