37 Quotes by Eric Bristow

I’ve got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I’m a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

You can’t drink too many otherwise you can’t see what you’re throwing at.

Nah, I don’t watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don’t have the time.

You eat when you’re hungry, and I’m not normally hungry in the mornings.

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I’ve always been Chelsea.

I was born at the right time. I was a freak – the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.

I don't read books.

I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and winning two or three contests a weekend, I ditched the agency job and concentrated on darts.