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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.
You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.
Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.
You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
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.
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.
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.
I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.