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Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength. -- Sid Waddell
I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s. -- Eric Bristow
All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts. -- Eric Bristow
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil. -- George Whitefield
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. -- Eric Bristow
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. -- Sid Waddell
But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it. -- Bob Schieffer
I think spectators and fans are very important. Darts players would be nowhere without them. -- Trina Gulliver
I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all. -- Tom Rush
A moment is a mighty thing Beyond the soul's imagination; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! -- Robert Montgomery
Are you throwing darts at the challenges in your life? Hoping something sticks? Try using a laser instead! Choose the biggest challenge you have and take action as focused and precise as a laser. Darts can go anywhere, lasers only go where you aim them... -- James A. Murphy
The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts. -- Eric Bristow
O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning! -- Walt Whitman
Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart. -- James Oppenheim
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. -- Dorothy Parker
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make. -- Hannah More
Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were -- Horace
Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet. -- Eric Bristow
As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison. -- Ovid
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. -- Sarah Brightman
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. -- Sid Waddell
There's enough sedative in these darts to bring down a werewolf, which is exactly what we're hunting. Why would we want to bring down an elephant if we're not hunting elephants? -- Derek Landy
The 'Goonies' are a close knit group. They believe in themselves, even though there are doubters throwing darts at them outside...'Goonies never say die.' That's pretty in line with the mentality of our team. -- Robin Lopez
I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard. -- Action Bronson
Just go to a bar, watch football - that's fun to me because I've not gotten to see anything because I've been travelling so much. Playing some shuffleboard and some pool and darts. I like kind of dive-y bars. -- Miles Teller
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. -- Sid Waddell
I love to play games. Anything that is competitive. I love to play darts, shoot pool, any video game or board game, anything like that I am all about. For me is more about spending time with somebody, hanging out and enjoying yourself. -- Casey James
Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made it a bit popular when I first started; I was part of the breakaway, and I also created a monster, so I think I've done a little bit. -- Eric Bristow
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal. -- Agnes Repplier
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. -- Eric Bristow
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this Me, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas. -- Madame de Stael
It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison. -- Albert Camus
For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward. -- Plutarch
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. -- Eric Bristow
Did you ever see a chameleon catch a fly? The chameleon gets behind the fly and remains motionless for some time, then he advances very slowly and gently, first putting forward one leg and then the other. At last, when well within reach, he darts his tongue and the fly disappears. England is the chameleon and I am that fly. -- Lobengula
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." -- Paul Schneider
The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot. -- Thierry Henry
No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist. -- Eric Maisel
As soon as a thought darts, I write it down. -- Thomas Hobbes
Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery -- Charles Simmons
Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit! -- Sid Waddell
Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show. -- Jim Lampley
The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts. -- Dennis Miller
Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax. -- Sid Waddell
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A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts, -- Burton Malkiel
The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight. -- Coventry Patmore
So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.' -- Tim Vine
[...] the body is what we lean toward,tensing as it darts, dancing away.but it's the voice that enters us. evensaying nothing. even saying nothingover and over absently to itself -- Tracy K. Smith
O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,I will have thousands of globes and all time. -- Walt Whitman
You explode, if that's more to your taste, shoot yourself all around in endless darts, be prodigal, spendthrift, reckless: I shall implode, collapse inside the abyss of myself, towards my buried centre, infinitely. -- Italo Calvino

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