Quotes from Neil Robertson

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.

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've been world champion and number one at the same time, which is a brilliant feeling.

If you are a single guy and work in a normal job you can get around it. But you can't win professional snooker matches when you are tired.

I'm good enough to win multiple world titles.

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

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

Every other sport has player's representation. We don't really have that officially - I know there's like a little players' committee but there's not a players' association, which is what we really need.

A long break can cause long-term damage to a player's technique. It can be dangerous for a snooker player to go 2-3 months without even touching a cue.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It used to be that a lot of the ranking tournaments were in Britain so British players could just drive an hour up the road and be there. I've had to travel from the other side of the world to play and live in the U.K.

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.

John Higgins is an absolute legend. He has such a good reputation.

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.

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.

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.

I have all the gym kit set up in my house but I am too lazy to get up really early in the morning to do it myself.

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.

When I was 16 I had a table at home in Melbourne and I hardly ever practised.