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.
Larry David, he's my hero. I want to be him - I want to act like him - everything.
Ronnie O'Sullivan is the only player in history to be dominant and popular at the same time.
In snooker, it's very important to keep very still on the shot and allow the cue to do the work.
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 always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.
You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it's an extension to your arm.
The tip I would give is that once you play the shot, make sure your chin is touching the cue after you hit the cue ball.
In all the years I've been playing, I've never considered changing my cue. It was the first cue I ever bought, aged 13, picked from a cabinet in a Dunfermline snooker centre just because I liked the Rex Williams signature on it. I saved £40 to buy it. It's a cheap bit of wood, and it's been the butt of other players' jokes for ages.
In around 2000, I became aware of a recurring problem of the 'tightness' around my cueing action, which somehow stops me believing that I can play the shot - even shots I could previously play with my eyes shut.
These days, you can watch many different sports; you are saturated with it 24 hours a day. And young boys all want to be footballers because you don't even need to be that good, and you can still earn £100,000 a week.
In Britain, we don't appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you.
In both snooker and poker, you have to play your best under pressure; I was always able to do that. I don't think it is something you can teach. Your mental strength, your confidence, your self-belief has got to be very strong. That is the common denominator.
By the age of 14, I had stopped doing homework and stopped studying - as soon as I had any spare time, I was up to the local snooker club. I was fortunate my parents never forced me to stop playing snooker and told me to carry on at school. Nowadays, that probably isn't the best advice. I basically had nothing else to fall back on.
For reasons I don't understand, I've always been relaxed at the table.
I find it very difficult when, due to a lack of confidence, I don't produce and lose matches I could have won.
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 think the word 'yips' trivialises it; it is completely debilitating, like a cancer spreading through your game and just destroying it.
I don't think about technique. I just pot the balls.
It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.
