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By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.
By the age of 14, I had stopped doing homework and stopped studying - as soon as I had any spare time, I was up to the local snooker club. I was fortunate my parents never forced me to stop playing snooker and told me to carry on at school. Nowadays, that probably isn't the best advice. I basically had nothing else to fall back on.
Did I have a mis-spent youth? I suppose I did in that I left school early without any qualifications, having bunked off a few times for tournaments.
Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.
Even though I say to myself that I was seven-times World Champion, the voice in my head says, 'You can't play this shot.' It's completely mental - quite literally. My confidence is sapped every time this happens.
Even when I used to play Jimmy White in Scotland, he would have the majority of the support. That's the only time it would irk me, coming back to Scotland and people still wanting me to lose.
Ever since I was a kid, I'd imagine that I was making a break to win the world championship.
Financially speaking, I haven't ended my career in the best shape, and there are debts, as well as what is to come by way of a divorce settlement to Mandy.
For me, winning was 'job done.' I would practise the day after.
For reasons I don't understand, I've always been relaxed at the table.
Going into a tournament with 100 per cent belief you will win it - that's how I've always enjoyed snooker.
However much I try, I can't shake off the effects of the yips.
I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.
I always loved playing in front of big audiences; now I'm jittery if one person is in the room watching me.
I am not a superstar in Britain.
I am not on tour any more, but I hear things, and there are stories that some players are not as dedicated as they should be and treating some of these PTC events in Europe as stag weekends rather than tournaments.
I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.
I can't overstate the part the yips played in bringing my career to a close.
I could have had eight or nine world titles at least, and you do think about that at times.
I don't think about technique. I just pot the balls.
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