Quotes from Neil Robertson

It is impossible to play the best of nines and expect the matches to finish on time.

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.

When you watch Barcelona play you want to see Lionel Messi score two goals. If he hasn't after 80 minutes you can perhaps get restless.

Becoming a dad has been a big change for me - I didn't have any responsibilities before. I obviously practised every day, but there was that luxury of things like watching movies when I wanted or waking up whenever I wanted.

Health comes first before any bonus on offer.

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.

If you're playing a shot and your peripheral vision picks up a player moving as you play the shot, if your vision goes from the object ball to what they're doing, you can miss the shot by several inches.

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

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.

I absolutely love my cricket. I would watch it six, seven hours a day when Australia were playing. I grew up in a very spoilt era of Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Ricky Ponting and others.

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

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.

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

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.

I fell off the tour when I was younger and had to go back home and practise harder and get better.

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

The years I had the 100 centuries, I should probably have had around 120 because I got addicted like hell to 'Fifa 14.'

Before I play matches I'm always switching myself on. That's why I have that walk-on music - Two Steps From Hell - they produce really good motivational gladiator-style music. As soon as that music comes on I'm switched on and I'm ready for a brawl!

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.

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.

Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian player. I couldn't afford to buy one.

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.