If I want to keep playing, I've got to take care of myself.
— Phil Taylor
I've got a small gym in my house so I can work my arms and shoulders.
When I first started doing exhibitions, you'd have 20 people down the pub, if you were lucky.
I love winning. It is a fantastic feeling.
I used to body build six or seven days a week. I was really, really fit. I wasn't naturally talented but I was fanatical at it. That's the problem with me, I've got a one-track mind.
There have been too many miles on the road. I have been doing six or seven exhibitions a week, two or three a night sometimes.
I'd ban drinking from darts.
I eat, breathe and sleep darts.
My attitude it that you don't give in.
It's hard to keep a marriage when you're on the road all the time.
I used to go into the practice room when I played county. Sometimes I wasn't playing until five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and I was there at 9 A.M. The cleaners were hoovering around me.
It can be a quick career if you don't perform properly. If some of these pros don't do something to reinvent themselves, they're going to go down the rankings as quick as anything.
There are a few things I lost which I shouldn't have lost. I know what I did wrong. I was lazy.
It's a sign you were playing well when you can't remember it.
You can't know the dedication it takes to win 16 world titles until you do it yourself. I didn't know what John Lowe had to do before me. I respected him because that's how I was brought up - but I respect him more now that I've done it myself.
People think that being rich is all about having money. But the times I've had the most money is when I've been unhappiest.
I don't get an eighth of the attention of David Beckham, but it's still pretty heavy.
These youngsters coming into the sport are bright lads. They see how much money there is now and they realise you've got to be fitter and stronger than the others.
You get about 20 people in the audience calling you a cheat. It hurts your feelings.
When we were travelling in different countries I felt like I was jetlagged eight months of the year.
I can see when people's minds are wrong. You can see when a footballer's going to miss a penalty.
With darts it's just one against one, it's blow for blow. The only thing I could compare it to is boxing. It's dead exciting. You're reacting to each other, the adrenaline's pumping. You don't feel calm at all. But it's all about being able to win when you're pumped up. People say you don't play the player; I play the player every time.
You know what, December's a funny time of the year, because the weather changes, the central heating comes on; sometimes you can get colds and coughs and flu.
Sometimes getting beaten isn't such a bad thing. It gives me a chance to look at myself in a new way.
I'll never be able to stop working or playing darts.
I would have been a fantastic captain in a football team or a manager because I would have motivated people.
I'm just a working class man who's done well for himself.
My mum and dad always brought me up like that. You go to work, you do your best.
I watched my children grow up, then they left home and had their own children. You miss them.
There are certain things I wish I could turn back the clock for.
Every time I watch myself on TV I have to go on a diet.
My dad was only 57 when he died. That's one of the things that makes me worried. You never know what's around the corner. I don't want to go at 57 and not having done anything but played darts.
People are determined to play well against me because they don't want to look silly and lose 6-0. But then, when I'm playing my best, it's weird. Their heads drop and it's like they're suddenly frightened.
The baggage of celebrity can be very heavy.
I've got a friend who has a juice business and he brings boxes round and fills up my fridge with fruit and vegetable juices.
If you told me I was at number 34 Blake Street, I'd immediately think 'double 17.' If I was at number 37, I'd think 'five, double 16.'
Do I miss the darts? No, not at all. It has been great not to get up in the morning and have to be dedicated anymore. That is the best part.
You can't teach people to win, it's in you, you've either got it or you haven't.
I have always been 100% regimental and I haven't done what I should do and sometimes you can be a casualty of your own success.
Sometimes I'm playing darts in my sleep and I wake myself up. I hate it.
I used to have to go to the board and hit three 180s before I'd allow myself to go to bed. Sometimes, I'd do it in five minutes but, on a bad night, it could take an hour.
I would never dream of telling them how to play but it would be amazing if England won the World Cup.
So much of sport is that mental attitude.
Max Hopp has a good style, lovely throw.
During the 1990s I was dominating everything. People were saying they were beaten before we got on to the stage.
Confidence beats a lot of people.
The games you lose are the games you can remember.
I think we've got every chance of being an Olympic sport and, if they did put us in, I know they'd sell a lot of tickets and the atmosphere would be fantastic. I would love to see it, I really would. If you want to sell tickets and get thousands of people there, then do it.
Money brings jealousy and bitterness.
I'm a little like Roy Keane. Mentally I'm very strong. I'm very hungry. I'm very dedicated. You can't throw me off my stride. That's how I break people. I just don't care what they do. They can throw 180, 180 and 180 again and I'm like, 'so what?' They've got to keep it up to beat me.
