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

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

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.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.

Let's enjoy love: without it we cannot live.

I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

I love my friends. They're my family.

Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.

Strong and content I travel the open road.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails