Darts Quotations

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

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.

In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn't recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn't let the darts go.

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

Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.

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.

Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

The rain is making the course play so much harder and while it was like throwing darts at the greens yesterday, today it was a lot more difficult to find the hole.

What makes poker work on television are the personalities, the players, their idiosyncrasies, their conversations, their body language, their humor. And darts has many of the same built-in factors. So we're gonna roll the dice.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; / And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; / Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

I was working as a builder in Colchester three or four years ago a construction worker as you'd put it. Basically, the building work was feeding my habit of darts, earning me a wage when I couldn't quite make it. On weekends I'd go to tournaments and started getting a little better until I had a decent sponsorship. I concentrated fully on darts two and a half years ago.

We got off to a good start. Our kids were really throwing darts with their irons and the greens are putting real well. You're going to see a lot of good scores after this round - not just ours, but from a lot of people.

We're all guessing at this point, basically throwing darts at a number of possible scenarios.

We're not throwing darts at a dart board. There is a methodology that's been developed over the last 30 or 40 years.

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

I like the way he played. He has acceleration on-ice presence, he finds the holes, picks his spots and darts to them. He has speed and skill.

I like the golf course. It's not standing there and shooting darts all the time. Yeah, we've had some high winds, and conditions have been tough. I just like playing that way.

I love to play and I love to win. But mostly it's just a really fun night to play darts and hang out with a great group of people.

AT&T-SBC has been putting up trial balloons for the past six months, giving policy makers the opportunity to shoot darts at it. There has been real little opposition that has been voiced from the administration.

The last thing I'm going to do is run around town trying to tell anybody that darts is going to be the next poker, ... but darts had a lot to recommend it to American television. It fits into that intersection of American popular culture and sports and regular life, which poker has readily occupied. So there are some similarities.

The key to playing a guy like Bradford is putting pressure on him. If you let him sit back there he'll pick you apart. We have to put pressure on him. Edmond North got to him some, but other times he was throwing darts out there.

If you're throwing darts at the wall, maybe.

He's one of the most memorable players we've ever had if you think about just how spectacular he's been and the darts he's thrown at teams.

He's a quick little forward. He darts around. Especially with today's NHL, there's a lot more room for quick little forwards.

You can't throw darts anymore. Our parents could buy utilities and it was almost clipping coupons on a bond. Now, there's much more involved.

It's throwing darts at the president, and the president has a pretty thick hide on these matters. Look at who's working for Arnold these days; they have a pretty good barometer on how far you can push the president.

It's not just standing up there and shooting darts at the green all the time.

It's like lawn darts out there. It almost seems like you can birdie every hole. I don't know if I'll be in the mix, but I gave myself a chance. That's kind of what I came up here for.

It was as if we were playing Manhunt. It was a kind of lethal darts match.

You can't have a director say, "Just be you"; you have to have an aim. It's like when you throw darts, you have to know where the bullseye is. You can't just say, "No no no no no, drop the darts. Just stand. We're going to film you." You have to get there indirectly. You have to have me doing something, and then you can get "me."

William Tell could take an apple off your head, [Phil] Taylor could take out a processed pea.

Steve Beaton, he's not Adonis, he's THE donis.

Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.

Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit!

Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy!

That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.