"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."
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Quoted in Hannigan, Mary. "Funny old games: The sporting year in a year like no other", The Irish Times. 30 December 2020. See section titled "Youth".
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