I was getting sick of losing and watching other players winning all the titles on TV.

My aim is to win as many tournaments as I play in but some people absolutely love snooker.

I don't particularly want to be playing in front of five people again. The reason I practised so hard was to get out of that.

It is amazing to win an event but to do it with the best standard ever been known in a final is incredible.

It might be good to be taught the basics like your stance when you first start playing.

If you hit the table after missing a ball, you get fined. If you swear, you get fined. You can't even tweet what you're thinking without getting fined. Players can't show their personality and therefore fans can't relate to them.

I don't feel people are that interested in snooker any more and the only thing that will get snooker back into the limelight is more controversy.

Snooker has taken such a step down I am not sure it will recover unless five Ronnie O'Sullivans come along at the same time.

You have to forget what has gone before, get on with the game and focus on that. You cannot afford to be affected and let things worry you.

My self-belief has always been there but it is about managing it the right way.

People see the way I play and the balls I pot and then sometimes think 'how does he miss?'

I visited a couple of schools where snooker is on the curriculum. They go in everyday and play snooker. In the future, all the top players will be coming from Asia and the Far East.

I got into pool tournaments when I was five, playing every weekend in competitions. Then one day I started playing snooker. I learnt by practising on my own, repeating the same shots again and again, and watching other players and copying what they did.

There is one nickname that my mate wants me to have... it's The Ace. I'm happy for a campaign for people to start calling me that!

I do everything right-handed - football, tennis, darts and golf - except for snooker.

The game tomorrow will give the bulk of our fans a chance to see some of our new signings in action although a reasonable number travelled to Berwick.

They were the better team (Sunday). If we played all game like we did in the third, I don't know if they're a better team than us, but hats off to them.

It looked to me like we had the balls delivered where they were supposed to be, we had the right patterns called, and we didn't execute or make the catch. When the game is on the line, we talk about who can you count on when the game counts, and we didn't come up with a play to win the game or at least a play to keep the drive going.

It was certainly a lot better than last Saturday's performance and maybe the lads have recovered their self belief. I've made it clear however that there's no point in us raising our game against Rangers and Celtic if we can't produce results against the teams in the lower part of the league. I know its going to be a roller-coaster ride for the rest of the season - there will be plenty ups and downs but I'm enjoying every minute of it.

At halftime, there was no sense of letdown and there was no sense we had the game under control,

We weren't executing the way we planned, and it showed. We lost the game in the third quarter no matter what calls were made and what things happened before or after that.

We've been putting all three phases of the game together.

We're known as a physical team, and we went out and try to establish rhythm in the game and let them know that we were there.

Yeah, it's a place that I'm pretty confident from. But it feels a little more at home than the right side sometimes. At the end of the game there's some kind of focus that you get into that you really don't worry about what's going to happen afterward.