Top 133 Darts Quotes & Sayings

You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.

No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

Darts is bad.

Sometimes I'm playing darts in my sleep and I wake myself up. I hate it.

I'll never be able to stop working or playing darts.

Darts is huge in the Philippines and Pacquiao is much bigger over there than David Beckham is here. I'm happy playing darts against him but I wouldn't want to box him.

Darts is more psychological than anything... staying mentally strong.

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.

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

Do I miss the darts? No, not at all. It has been great not to get up in the morning and have to be dedicated anymore. That is the best part.

Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.

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.

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

Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye.

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.

I don't look like the stereotypical darts player, do I?

I actually gave up playing darts for three years after my little boy was born.

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

It's important to spend some time with your family. You've got to get the right balance. If it's all darts, you'll then just burn out.

I have helped darts in general.

I can offer my family things that I could never have dreamt of - darts has changed my life.

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.

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."

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 am very well known in the world of darts and in my home town of Southam but unfortunately women's darts does not have the high profile of the men's game and so is not featured on TV very much. I think you need to be seen on world wide TV to become really famous.

I hope I've done women's darts proud, put women's darts on the map and given it the recognition that it deserves.

I do everything right-handed - football, tennis, darts and golf - except for snooker.

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

I eat, breathe and sleep darts.

Being included in just the U.S. Darts Masters was amazing enough but to now be able to go worldwide is something I could only dream of.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

Darts in such a little time has really changed my life.

I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.

I might play darts on TV now but really I've not changed.

My mum played darts for the county. But only in the B team.

I would say darts is probably 15 per cent throwing. The rest of it is mental strength. Being able to hold your nerve.

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

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.

Whatever happens in women's darts in the future I will be able to think I helped to achieve it.

To any young women out there who might be thinking about taking up darts, I would just say, 'Go for it.'

Boxers Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank would not have missed their rivalry for all the world, and I don't mind a bit of needle in darts if it helps to pay the bills.

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.

When I started playing darts and watching more darts on TV I would say someone like Trina Gulliver definitely inspired me to carry on and keep playing.

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.

I watch football sometimes at home, but in my downtime, I play pool with my friends. Darts - I enjoy darts now, and when there is a game not coming up, I enjoy playing golf as well. I'm not very good at golf, but I enjoy being able to relax.

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

I think spectators and fans are very important. Darts players would be nowhere without them.

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

Us women, we can play darts.

During the year, when I'm not doing major tournaments, I'll go to the gym for about two to three hours in the morning and practise darts in the afternoon.

I've beaten two of the best players in the world, and if that doesn't say that women can't play darts I don't know what can.

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

O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!

It is a disgrace. I think darts should be at the Olympics. Obviously you'd have to cut out the drinking side of the game. But apart from that there's no reason why it shouldn't be there.

Darts should definitely be in the Olympic Games. Can you tell me any difference between archery and darts or shooting and darts? It's a very similar concept and both of those are in the Olympic Games. And don't forget that darts is also a hugely popular sport.

I'd ban drinking from darts.

Every time I play darts I try to keep my poker face on and stay focused until that last dart has gone in.

I'm so proud to help put women's darts on the map.

Most people that develop in darts or any sport probably take two or three years to find their feet.