Neil Robertson

“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.”

“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.”

“Snooker has been really, really tough for me from a personal point of view because to be at the top and to stay at the top you've got to put the hours in.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 took coronavirus very seriously.”

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

“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.”