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]

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.

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.

A life full of excuses is a life full of regrets

Never let the salt of your tears be tasteless in grief.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

For a moment this good time would never end You and me Just wasting time I was kissing you You were kissing me love From good day into a moonlight

I was a young lad when I was growing up.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

I say it every day - I'm the luckiest man on earth

Ian Baird is dashing around like a steam roller up front.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.