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.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

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.

To take a leap, you must hope not to fall.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

I'm having a hard time finding a date. I don't trust any women I meet. I'm very skeptical.

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

Character is the most precious gift of education.