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.
It’s important to spend some time with your family. You’ve got to get the right balance. If it’s all darts, you’ll then just burn out.
I was born at the right time. I was a freak – the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.
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.
Boxers Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank would not have missed their rivalry for all the world, and I don’t mind a bit of needle in darts if it helps to pay the bills.
Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.
Every time I play darts I try to keep my poker face on and stay focused until that last dart has gone in.
I’ll never be able to stop working or playing darts.
I can offer my family things that I could never have dreamt of – darts has changed my life.
Whatever happens in women’s darts in the future I will be able to think I helped to achieve it.
I actually gave up playing darts for three years after my little boy was born.
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.
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.
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 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.
I do everything right-handed – football, tennis, darts and golf – except for snooker.
You were turning up to games and one or two people would boo. Then a few more would join in. I was painted as the villain of darts. I accepted it to a certain extent. But it got a bit over the top.
I’ve always had darts around me growing up because my family has always played it.
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.
It’s important to spend some time with your family. You’ve got to get the right balance. If it’s all darts, you’ll then just burn out.
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.
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 hope I’ve done women’s darts proud, put women’s darts on the map and given it the recognition that it deserves.
Ever since I’ve been 16, 15, that’s all I’ve been doing: playing darts.
In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can’t let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn’t recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn’t let the darts go.
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