Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

I don't read books.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.

Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made it a bit popular when I first started; I was part of the breakaway, and I also created a monster, so I think I've done a little bit.