There are players out there who want to dominate and keep their opponent sitting down. They want to make centuries and win frames at a single visit, and I like to see that.
— Stephen Hendry
I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.
There are some people who never get used to losing at anything, and I am probably one of them.
You get better as the rounds go on.
I put on the tuxedo, and it's like putting on overalls - they're my work clothes. Then I go to work. I'm relaxed. I do my job.
I liked Dalgety Bay, but my life did not revolve around the house. I was a teenager there, and these things aren't that important at that age.
My favourite store is All Saints. Having spent years dressed in a dinner suit and a bow tie as a professional player, it is wonderful being able to wear normal clothes again.
Even when I used to play Jimmy White in Scotland, he would have the majority of the support. That's the only time it would irk me, coming back to Scotland and people still wanting me to lose.
In Britain, we don't appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you.
It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.
When you have a big lead, you relax and don't concentrate as much.
It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.
I liked 'The Wire.'
There's no point, me turning up at the world championship as a publicity stunt and then lose 10-3 to someone who shouldn't tie my shoelaces.
I loved being the best player in the world. There was no pressure staying there.
By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.
I would never be one to go striding over to any woman who caught my eye - after all, I'm the person who got to know my wife's parents before I plucked up the courage to talk to her.
When I'm practising on my own, my game feels great, but there's a big difference between practising on your own and playing against people.
I find it very difficult when, due to a lack of confidence, I don't produce and lose matches I could have won.
You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it's an extension to your arm.
My form's good in practice, but that doesn't count for anything, really.
For reasons I don't understand, I've always been relaxed at the table.
I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and stayed for about six years.
I have always really loved clothes, although I am glad to say that my tastes have mellowed somewhat over the years. When I first played professionally and started to earn big money, almost everything I bought was by Versace.
In China, they appreciate someone who has worked hard. They say it is incredible to win seven world championships. I know it is, but it's a shame I have to go 10,000 miles to get the whole crowd behind me.
The quarter finals is always an exciting round because you know you're one match away from that one table situation: where the magic really starts to happen at the Crucible and where it starts to come into its own.
I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to.
You have to win any way you can.
It's easy to have a good attitude when you're flying, but you need it when you're up against it as well.
I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite.
Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.
When you get a trophy, why go jumping and crying? Winning's a great feeling, but everything else is an anti-climax.
If I have regrets, it's around my sons. There is no doubt they were affected by the divorce - Carter more than Blaine, I think.
For me, winning was 'job done.' I would practise the day after.
I am not on tour any more, but I hear things, and there are stories that some players are not as dedicated as they should be and treating some of these PTC events in Europe as stag weekends rather than tournaments.
Steve Davis has found a way of competing to a level that is not as high as it once was, enjoying his wins, and not getting too angry about the defeats.
You benefit from deep inner belief of having wins behind you, so you get to the table, and you know you're not going to miss.
I don't think about technique. I just pot the balls.
Ever since I was a kid, I'd imagine that I was making a break to win the world championship.
One of my biggest sponsors is based in China, and I probably spend as much time there as I do in the U.K. Over the years, I have really grown to love it, but the first time I went was a different story.
When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed.
I am not a superstar in Britain.
It would break my heart to lose playing safe.
You really have to be winning by the time you get to 20 these days.
I'm not the player I was.
Larry David, he's my hero. I want to be him - I want to act like him - everything.
Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.
If I'm going to play, I'm going to have to give it 100%, which means I'm going to have to play in all of the tournaments that I don't like.
In the '90s, I never socialised with other players.
Financially speaking, I haven't ended my career in the best shape, and there are debts, as well as what is to come by way of a divorce settlement to Mandy.
