Top 40 Neil Robertson Quotes

The more muscle I’m losing, the better I’m cueing.

There are a lot of players who fiddle around with their towel in your shot or they get up out of their chair to see if a ball’s on when you’re about to play your shot.

I was heavily addicted to a game called ‘Diablo II.’

Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you’d like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything happening off the table to someone else’s ranking.

There needs to be a flat rule where if someone’s playing a shot you sit in the chair, and probably more referees need to be a bit sterner with how they apply that rule.

We know how hard it is to travel around and if the schedules are really tight for you, it means you’re doing really well because you’re not going home early from many events. When you go deep in tournaments, that’s the consequence you have to pay I suppose.

I fell off the tour when I was younger and had to go back home and practise harder and get better.

A long break can cause long-term damage to a player’s technique. It can be dangerous for a snooker player to go 2-3 months without even touching a cue.

I’m always looking to improve as a player and it’s very pleasing when you see those improvements.

I used to do too much weight training years ago. You probably wouldn’t see it on me but I probably had a bit too much muscle.

Maybe one day there will be a snooker pin-up calendar if we all get in shape. I would be up for that, get some spray tan going.

Before I play matches I’m always switching myself on. That’s why I have that walk-on music – Two Steps From Hell – they produce really good motivational gladiator-style music. As soon as that music comes on I’m switched on and I’m ready for a brawl!

I love the history of the sport and I want to keep keep building my history as a player with more records.

It’s good to be No1 but you’d like to do it the right way, not because of something that might have happened off the table.

Lifting a major trophy in front of an empty stadium would be a very strange feeling. But then you’d rather do that than not play at all.

As long as your eyes aren’t going, or you’ve got some back or neck problems, then you can play this game as long as you’re motivated to practise.

I almost wrote my career off. I wasn’t quite good enough and I thought that ship had sailed. But I carried on, won the World Under-21 Championship in 2003 and got the tour card.

Snooker isn’t a sport where you can put on bulk muscle. It’s about the cueing and the stamina.

Snooker has been really, really tough for me from a personal point of view because to be at the top and to stay at the top you’ve got to put the hours in.

I took coronavirus very seriously.

The Worlds was great, Masters was great, but that was sort of mission accomplished with the Triple Crown.

We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.

It used to be that a lot of the ranking tournaments were in Britain so British players could just drive an hour up the road and be there. I’ve had to travel from the other side of the world to play and live in the U.K.

None of the top players like the 128 system at all.

Players thump their cue on the floor when the opponent is coming to the table, or at the table. And the referees need to show some more authority on this stuff. You don’t see it so much with top players or on TV tables – they know they can’t get away with it.

There are lot of tournaments and it’s hard when you have a young family.

If I get on a roll then I will steamroll people.

When I first came to England I hated football and knew nothing about it. Watching 0-0s and 1-0s having come from Aussie Rules was just dull. The only player I had heard of was David Beckham. But when I was living in Leicester I started watching Match of the Day and really got into Chelsea.

League of Legends’ is banned in my house and rightly so. It is just awful. In the past, I’ve been staying up and playing it. Then all of a sudden, it is 6 A.M., the birds are tweeting and I’m thinking: ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to get up in a couple of hours to take my son Alexander to school. Then I’ve got to practise.’

I used to feel very tired during tournaments. I was drinking four or five coffees per day and felt I needed more.

I absolutely love my cricket. I would watch it six, seven hours a day when Australia were playing. I grew up in a very spoilt era of Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Ricky Ponting and others.

You look at the guys who are winning tournaments , Ronnie, Ding, Mark Selby, Marco Fu – none of them are overweight, they are the slimmer guys on tour.

I always knew I could win tournaments in the U.K. but there was a question mark over whether I could deal with playing in China.

The players who don’t look after themselves physically and mentally and enjoy the nights out a bit too much will suffer, the sport is a lot more professional now.

I’ve got quite an addictive personality where if I start doing something I try to do it to the best of my ability.

There’s no specific reason for it, sometimes results just go against you and your opponents play too well.

The years I had the 100 centuries, I should probably have had around 120 because I got addicted like hell to ‘Fifa 14.’

I’ve been world champion and number one at the same time, which is a brilliant feeling.

I have to motivate myself every season now to win things I’ve already won just to build my own legacy and try to end my career as high up as I possibly can.

There’s no way in the world any of the guys who have beaten me would have thought I could do what I’ve done. I just kept persisting with it.