I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.

This is something that's very special; people saying they watch me play who are now turning professional.

The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That's a bond that's pretty special.

We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

The worst loss in my career - the 2002 World Championship final against Peter Ebdon.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

Holiday drinking in my family happens about as often as Sarah Palin is spotted reading the 'New York Times.' Neither of my parents are big drinkers, probably because they each had a parent that was.

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.