Neil Robertson Quotes

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

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.

Health comes first before any bonus on offer.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I used to be very lazy in my teens. I didn’t practise enough but I was OK when I started really getting into snooker.

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.

We don’t have that many tournaments so sponsorship from logos is another way of helping boost your income.

It’s very frustrating when you don’t always get the right kind of rub – you watch tennis and know if you play better than the other guy, you win. But that’s the game we play. It can create mini-upsets.

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

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

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.

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.

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 have developed a nasty habit of losing to the guy who wins the tournament, and that alone makes you think what you could have achieved.

You see stuff that is cheating, no question, and it needs to be sorted out. The biggest thing is moving on the shot by an opponent.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I’m a pretty laid-back person but when I first played on TV against Jimmy White at the Masters it was daunting. The more times you play you get used to it and you eventually come to love it.

I have always tried to play the right way, and I honestly believe for the most part the etiquette in snooker is very good. So when there are breaches, and there are, it stands out.

I think I’m a pretty calm kind of guy.

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.

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.

Not many players have tables at home, they like going to a club and feeling like they’re going to a place of work.

I’ve tried to play within myself but I need adrenaline and need to be pumped up to play well otherwise you will see snoring snooker like that.

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.’

Snooker is a very good TV sport.

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.

Being a champion is a dream come true.

Now I’ve won everything in the game I’m just trying to repeat the success.

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

I’m good enough to win multiple world titles.

I took coronavirus very seriously.

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.

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.

It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.