The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.
Nobody worked as hard to make snooker a popular sport as I did.
I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.
How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.
Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
That's the hardest part of the game. You've got to stay focused. With golf, make a mistake and you get another shot straight away; but with snooker you could be five minutes before you get another chance.
Ronnie O'Sullivan, the greatest snooker player ever, will tell you that he doesn't practise. I'm not having that. I call him Roger, after Federer, because he's a genius. He doesn't like that nickname.
I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.
My dad was a coalman and was always playing snooker with his mates.
I mean what's the point of them becoming professional snooker players? If there's not much money in the game, if there's no guarantee of future tournaments, if no one knows what's going on.
