- Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.
- 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.
- Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
- The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.
- I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.
- 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.
- People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.
- The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. I've never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker.
- On playing against John Higgins at the 2016 Scottish Open: John's done fantastic things in snooker along with Stephen Hendry, probably two of the greatest sportsmen Scotland has ever had, so it will be a fantastic occasion. But there are so many good players left in the draw and, from Friday onwards, the crowds are going to be entertained by some high-quality snooker.
- When I stopped taking drugs I got really depressed. I was struggling with life. It's a bit chicken and egg. I was depressed because I'd stopped drinking and taking drugs, but I only drank and took drugs in the first place because I was depressed. Ultimately I'd rather be clean and depressed than on drugs and depressed. At least there's a way out, and you're reliant on your natural feelings - if you're down you really are down; if you're up, you are genuinely up.
- It's so strange that the more successful you become, the more people want to give you things. And the more you can afford, the more people want to give you things for nothing. It doesn't seem right.
- I've tried a number of religions and gurus in my time, including Buddhism, but ultimately they didn't do as much for my peace of mind as snooker.
- I just want to live for the moment. Tomorrow's not important, next month is not important, what's happened in the past is not important. That is my journey.
- Where do Labour go next is the question? I must admit that I like Jeremy Corbyn. I like how he is being honest about raising taxes, and that unless you raise taxes you won't get a good National Health Service. That is just common sense, and I'm all for that philosophy.
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