Top 90 Darts Quotes

I know people say that we are a load of beer drinkers but we are far more professional these days. These critics should come and have a go at playing darts if they think it is so easy.

Darts has changed my life but it won’t change me as a person – if anything, winning has put more hunger in me, I want to win more.

The thing with darts players is they have always appeared available. They don’t have to live like monks. I’ve only ever met one dry player in 35 years.

When we’re flat out playing darts, really that’s my practice because we play practically every day of the week and then when I’m home I like to have some downtime with the family.

My dad was only 57 when he died. That’s one of the things that makes me worried. You never know what’s around the corner. I don’t want to go at 57 and not having done anything but played darts.

I’m a championship handball player. I’m a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I’m really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don’t want anymore.

Right before I go on stage, I’m absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.

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.

I feel I can concentrate a bit more on playing darts now people are just seeing an equal playing field.

Being included in just the U.S. Darts Masters was amazing enough but to now be able to go worldwide is something I could only dream of.

So basically, you know, the first day on the job you get there and you realize everybody has a Nerf gun. They had, you know, the smaller ones that shoot the darts. So part of the rite of passage of coming to the company is you have to get your own.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan’s fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

I’m so proud to help put women’s darts on the map.

I didnt even own my own set of darts until 2012 when my mate started a team in the pub and wed just play on a Friday night.

The money financially is more for the family because I just enjoy playing darts. It’s great situation to be able to earn money out of it.

Us women, we can play darts.

Us women, we can play darts.

Darts is huge in the Philippines and Pacquiao is much bigger over there than David Beckham is here. I’m happy playing darts against him but I wouldn’t want to box him.

Darts has changed my life but it won’t change me as a person – if anything, winning has put more hunger in me, I want to win more.

I missed the birth of my third child through darts. I saw her three times in eight weeks. It was very hard. You head does get a little bit scrambled because you are not there.

Darts in such a little time has really changed my life.

I’m working really hard on my practice routine which I’m really enjoying and I’m constantly trying to improve with the help of Target Darts.

I would say darts is probably 15 per cent throwing. The rest of it is mental strength. Being able to hold your nerve.

Right before I go on stage, I’m absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.

I’m going to balance my schedule so I’m still getting everything I need and just making sure I’m happy really, because when you’re happy it is easier to play darts.

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

My mum played darts for the county. But only in the B team.

Darts should definitely be in the Olympic Games. Can you tell me any difference between archery and darts or shooting and darts? It’s a very similar concept and both of those are in the Olympic Games. And don’t forget that darts is also a hugely popular sport.

I was born at the right time. I was a freak – the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.

We understand that there is a certain protocol. You have to do press in order to continue, and we understand that. It’s not like I sit at home with a picture of some press guy shooting darts at him.

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

During the year, when I’m not doing major tournaments, I’ll go to the gym for about two to three hours in the morning and practise darts in the afternoon.

I love to play games. Anything that is competitive. I love to play darts, shoot pool, any video game or board game, anything like that I am all about. For me is more about spending time with somebody, hanging out and enjoying yourself.

It is a disgrace. I think darts should be at the Olympics. Obviously you’d have to cut out the drinking side of the game. But apart from that there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be there.

I always wear flat shoes for darts because a heel can put me off balance. I press the side of my shoe against the oche, not the toe. That puts my throwing arm a few inches closer to the board. Not everybody is the same but it works for me.

I have helped darts in general.

I came to darts from rugby and I was chucked into the deep end. Back then I never thought I could talk to anyone in an interview. But if you put me up to speak in front of 10 or 20 people now I still couldnt do that.

Darts in such a little time has really changed my life.

I don’t look like the stereotypical darts player, do I?

It’s a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I’m going to come out with next – and neither do I.

I am on a fat-free diet for most of the year, but before ‘the worlds,’ I tend to relax on the diet a bit to concentrate on darts.

I have helped darts in general.

To any young women out there who might be thinking about taking up darts, I would just say, ‘Go for it.’

As a darts player when you’re away, you’re in your room 90% of the time, going to play darts, back to the room, sleep and play darts, that’s the way it is.

I would say darts is probably 15 per cent throwing. The rest of it is mental strength. Being able to hold your nerve.

I eat, breathe and sleep darts.

You can’t satirise darts, because it’s hyper-real as it is; there’s already enough over-the-top madness to it.

John Austin, author of ‘Cubicle Warfare,’ has outdone himself with ‘Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction,’ a fully illustrated step-by-step guide to constructing thirty-five pocket-sized war machines, including a Clothespin Shooter, a Hanger Slingshot, a Paper-Clip Trebuchet, and Shoelace Darts.

You can’t satirise darts, because it’s hyper-real as it is; there’s already enough over-the-top madness to it.

I’m always altering things to try and get better. It’s not always about the darts too, I’m trying to eat healthier and look after myself, I even bought a dog to walk.

Darts is bad.

I’d ban drinking from darts.

I always wear flat shoes for darts because a heel can put me off balance. I press the side of my shoe against the oche, not the toe. That puts my throwing arm a few inches closer to the board. Not everybody is the same but it works for me.

I’m working really hard on my practice routine which I’m really enjoying and I’m constantly trying to improve with the help of Target Darts.

The thing about darts is that you’ve got to shout. It’s not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You’ve got to hurl yourself at it.

Darts is more psychological than anything… staying mentally strong.

I’m so proud to help put women’s darts on the map.

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.

It is so easy to be pleasant and charming and positive when life is going swimmingly well. You are winning. You are healthy. You are happy. But what happens when life throws darts at you?

Darts should definitely be in the Olympic Games. Can you tell me any difference between archery and darts or shooting and darts? It’s a very similar concept and both of those are in the Olympic Games. And don’t forget that darts is also a hugely popular sport.

I might play darts on TV now but really I’ve not changed.

After school I went to work at a builders’ merchant in Stoke. After we finished on a Friday, it was down to the Duke of York for a drink with my mates and a game of darts. Unfortunately for them I had a natural talent and nobody could beat me.

It is a disgrace. I think darts should be at the Olympics. Obviously you’d have to cut out the drinking side of the game. But apart from that there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be there.

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.