My hearts not been in it this year [2005], and I've not been playing well, but I keep on winning.

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.

If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

A loss is a loss, examine why you lost. A win is a win, evaluate what made you successful.

The latest political rumor, North Korea ruler Kim Jong Il is close to naming his successor. Yeah, he said the only person with glasses big enough to replace me is Nicole Richie.

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

It turned out that building mobile software was a lot more like building hardware... where you had 1 shot and you had to get it right, right out of the gate.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

Their silence is enough praise.

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.