Adrian Lewis Quotes

When Phil Taylor is in the field - no matter whether it's tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace - he is the man to beat.

No, I don't get nervous when I play basketball.

Malice is part of football, I wouldn't call it illegitimate.

The worst loss in my career - the 2002 World Championship final against Peter Ebdon.

I've done it before, and I might do it whenever we need to as a big guy... I'll take it. A hard foul is part of the game, which is good.

If I'm on my way to play a round of golf there is an anxiety in me, a feeling of 'I can't lose today.'

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'm not a dirty player.

Why should I change my game if I don't even get a yellow card?

Some guys play so straight, and that may be their thing; like, a lot of guys are good playing like that. I can't play like that. I have to flair out. I have to yell. I gotta scream. I gotta talk trash - that's how I get myself going.

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.

For me, it's about trying to be the best in a sport where there's little room for error.

Some people seem to think football is like theatre and that everyone has to play the good guy. But I think that you transform when you cross the white line: you're not the same person as off it.

As soon as I step on the field, totally different person. As soon as I step off, I go back to who I've always been.

I've played the game for 23, 24 years. Four months off, I'm not going to lose it.

I don't have anything against United. Playing them won't make me run any faster or try any harder.

I like to bump people, to feel me getting into somebody's jersey. I'm just different. I like contact, like physical play, like pushing and holding. But I'm not dirty.

You have to go into every event with 100 percent confidence and just surf your best because everyone there is there to win, and no one is going to give you the heat. You have to win by a mile to really make a heat.

I'm very different on the court than outside.

I've been good at the game of basketball my whole life, so I'm hoping I can get back to that.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

I'm not a troublemaker. People say, 'You got into a lot of incidents.' Yeah, but it was on the basketball floor.

It's ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there's a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.

I hope I can make the decision to give up before my legs give up on me. I do not want to be embarrassing on the field and feel one day that I'm not at my best and players can beat me easily in duels.

The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It's become accepted, and actually it's not acceptable at all.