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" As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily. "
Good
Learning
School
" At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German. "
Think
Accent
You
" Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength. "
Strength
Than
Players
" Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals. "
Your
Golden
Life
" He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave. "
Happy
Microwave
Penguin
" He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed. "
Speed
Wasp
About
" He's as cool as a prized marrow! "
Marrow
Cool
He
" I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box. "
End
Like
Up
" I'm never quite as excited as people think because with my voice, when I shout, I squeak. "
Never
People
Excited
" I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack. "
Voice
Need
Lottery
" I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails. "
Out
Because
Fast
" It's a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I'm going to come out with next - and neither do I. "
Going
Next
Most
" It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline. "
Trying
Trampoline
Like
" I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience. "
Thinking
Stop
Great
" Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter. "
Look
Like
Go
" That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus. "
Greatest
Comeback
Since
" That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble! "
Three
Like
Onions
" The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them. "
Chips
Atmosphere
You
" The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there! "
Like
Duress
Park
" There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. "
Romans
Excitement
Since
" The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it. "
Like
Yourself
You
" The thing with darts players is they have always appeared available. They don't have to live like monks. I've only ever met one dry player in 35 years. "
Always
Years
Only
" Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint. "
Beat
Flint
Pure
" Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out. "
Your
Leaves
Say
" When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27. "
Only
More
He
" You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player. "
Dart
Out
Player
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