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When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

The guys that I beat in the 'Super Six,' every one of those fights was tough, even if I did dominate some.

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player who is getting a bit better each year.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.