Price on potential rugby regrets: "I've got great memories from darts now, but I would have loved a Welsh cap"

Gerwyn Price could become World Champion in under two weeks and World Number On in darts to cap off a meteoric rise for 'The Iceman' who has gone from a professional rugby player to a darting superstar.

Price played for Welsh Premiership sides Cross Keys and Neath and also had a brief spell with Glasgow Warriors in the Pro12 before leaving it all behind for Q-School and a successful darting life.

But speaking recently on the Scrum V podcast, there are potential rugby regrets for Price who admitted that his main wish was to be capped for his country and that he wishes he could give it another go.

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"I had great times and great memories of rugby and I've got great memories from darts now, but I would have loved a Welsh cap," said Price on the Scrum V podcast.

"That's something I've always dreamt of since I was really, really young and while I don't think I'd give everything up for one cap, I just wish I could give rugby another crack, go back a few years.

"I'd go back and do a lot of things differently and give rugby that little bit extra. I wasn't as mature back then as what I am now and I think about what would have been.

"I always believed in my ability but I just never got my full international cap.

"I think I sort of missed the boat a little bit. I wasn't good to myself - I used to like going out having a few beers so that didn't help.

"I look back and think, if I hadn't had left Cross Keys, could I have had a better chance getting in with the Dragons, getting the foot through the door?

"But then I probably would never have been a darts player."

Also he discussed his rise and admitted that he didn't expect to be one of the elite when he switched and that potentially the switch did happen for a reason.

"I know if I win this World Championship I can be world number one," added Price.

"I've been playing like five or six years. If I was told that five or six years ago I would have just said, 'You are having me on', but it's just crazy how things change.

"Like I said, I miss the rugby but everything happens for a reason and it's a good experience playing darts."

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