"From being a miner at 15 years of age in Pontarddulais, then I was a bus conductor and a postman and then went on to work in insurance. Next thing I was champion of the world."

"If you look at the younger players coming through, they're not that good really. Most of them would do well as half-decent amateurs – or not even amateurs, they're so bad a lot of them. I've probably got to lose an arm and a leg to fall outside the top 50. So that's why I'm hovering around – because of how poor it is down that end."

"Ronnie is the best player in the world at the moment, right-handed, left-handed, one-legged, one-armed, whatever you want!"