I'm good friends with Robbie Williams because we both grew up in Stoke and our dads went to the same pubs. His dad, Pete, is like my second dad, I can talk to him about anything and I see him most weeks. And Rob is brilliant, a really generous, lovely bloke.

Phil Taylor

Everything goes with age. Your eyesight, your energy levels.

People think that being rich is all about having money. But the times I've had the most money is when I've been unhappiest.

Phil Taylor

Time Money UN

I'm a little like Roy Keane. Mentally I'm very strong. I'm very hungry. I'm very dedicated. You can't throw me off my stride. That's how I break people. I just don't care what they do. They can throw 180, 180 and 180 again and I'm like, 'so what?' They've got to keep it up to beat me.

Phil Taylor

Men Car You

Boxers Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank would not have missed their rivalry for all the world, and I don't mind a bit of needle in darts if it helps to pay the bills.

Phil Taylor

Art Would World

Money doesn't mean anything. It's just money.

Phil Taylor

Money Us Thing

During the year, when I'm not doing major tournaments, I'll go to the gym for about two to three hours in the morning and practise darts in the afternoon.

Phil Taylor

Morning Men Art

I've got a small gym in my house so I can work my arms and shoulders.

Phil Taylor

Work Use Us

Sometimes getting beaten isn't such a bad thing. It gives me a chance to look at myself in a new way.

Phil Taylor

Time Chance Way

We had this little yard, and during the summer holidays, when my mum and dad were working, I spent hours bowling a golf ball at a stick. Just bowling, bowling, bowling. And I got to where I could hit the stick every time, repeating the same action. That's where the darts came from.

Phil Taylor

Work Time Art

When I first started doing exhibitions, you'd have 20 people down the pub, if you were lucky.

Phil Taylor

Art You Were

I don't get an eighth of the attention of David Beckham, but it's still pretty heavy.

Phil Taylor

Till Tent Ten

I grew up in Mill Hill. All potteries, mining. Then once Maggie Thatcher closed the pits down, it became a bit depressed.

Phil Taylor

Up Then T

Confidence beats a lot of people.

Phil Taylor

T People Lot

Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

Phil Taylor

Money Jealousy Us

Money is great for paying the bills and putting food in the cupboard and in the fridge. But winning titles is different altogether. It's what you do, it's your living.

Phil Taylor

Money Great Food

In any sport, you need a rival.

Phil Taylor

You T Sport

When we play in the Pro Tour there's no crowds in, so you can concentrate better. The others play better as well, there's players who can't play too good on TV but on the floor when it's nice and quiet they can bang them in, let me tell you.

Phil Taylor

Good You Who

I do get addicted to stuff. I tried playing golf and I was soon going twice a day.

Phil Taylor

Yin Twice Tried

The games you lose are the games you can remember.

Phil Taylor

You T Remember

You can get spoilt in this game, you know. You reach the point where you get a new car and don't get excited about it. You get complacent, and that's what you've got to watch for.

Phil Taylor

Car You Where

You can't know the dedication it takes to win 16 world titles until you do it yourself. I didn't know what John Lowe had to do before me. I respected him because that's how I was brought up - but I respect him more now that I've done it myself.

Phil Taylor

There are a few things I lost which I shouldn't have lost. I know what I did wrong. I was lazy.

Phil Taylor

I don't know why I am liked. I think it's probably because I've just been normal, not been flash or tried to hurt anybody. I'm not one for going out and going to nightclubs. I'd rather stay in and watch a good movie.

Phil Taylor

There are certain things I wish I could turn back the clock for.

Phil Taylor

These youngsters coming into the sport are bright lads. They see how much money there is now and they realise you've got to be fitter and stronger than the others.

Phil Taylor

Down the years, I have always enjoyed playing Raymond van Barneveld. There is always a frisson of excitement in the air, an edge to the contest that makes the sap rise, but it stops short of pure enmity.

Phil Taylor

I'd ban drinking from darts.

Phil Taylor

There's only one thing better than winning 14 world titles - and that's winning 15.

Phil Taylor

I'll never be able to stop working or playing darts.

Phil Taylor

I treat Adrian Lewis as if he were my own son.

Phil Taylor

I would have been a fantastic captain in a football team or a manager because I would have motivated people.

Phil Taylor

Mum was nuts - you'd get a bucket of water over you if you refused to get out of bed.

Phil Taylor

I used to watch a lot of people and think, 'You're not dedicated.' It's half an hour into the game and they have dropped their standard. They weren't putting the effort in.

Phil Taylor

It can be a quick career if you don't perform properly. If some of these pros don't do something to reinvent themselves, they're going to go down the rankings as quick as anything.

Phil Taylor

I eat, breathe and sleep darts.

Phil Taylor

I'm good friends with Robbie Williams because we both grew up in Stoke and our dads went to the same pubs. His dad, Pete, is like my second dad, I can talk to him about anything and I see him most weeks. And Rob is brilliant, a really generous, lovely bloke.

Phil Taylor

I can sit down and watch the Discovery channel and see something on nuclear submarines that gets me thinking about torpedoes and darts . Or I can see a documentary about someone preparing for a big challenge and I'll use the same techniques. You always need to aim to get better.

Phil Taylor

The baggage of celebrity can be very heavy.

Phil Taylor

People are determined to play well against me because they don't want to look silly and lose 6-0. But then, when I'm playing my best, it's weird. Their heads drop and it's like they're suddenly frightened.

Phil Taylor

My dad was only 57 when he died. That's one of the things that makes me worried. You never know what's around the corner. I don't want to go at 57 and not having done anything but played darts.

Phil Taylor

I think we've got every chance of being an Olympic sport and, if they did put us in, I know they'd sell a lot of tickets and the atmosphere would be fantastic. I would love to see it, I really would. If you want to sell tickets and get thousands of people there, then do it.

Phil Taylor

Every time I watch myself on TV I have to go on a diet.

Phil Taylor

It's a sign you were playing well when you can't remember it.

Phil Taylor

I watched my children grow up, then they left home and had their own children. You miss them.

Phil Taylor

During the 1990s I was dominating everything. People were saying they were beaten before we got on to the stage.

Phil Taylor

My mum and dad always brought me up like that. You go to work, you do your best.

Phil Taylor

I used to go into the practice room when I played county. Sometimes I wasn't playing until five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and I was there at 9 A.M. The cleaners were hoovering around me.

Phil Taylor

Max Hopp has a good style, lovely throw.

Phil Taylor

I'm just a working class man who's done well for himself.

Phil Taylor

It's hard to keep a marriage when you're on the road all the time.

Phil Taylor