"My job before I was a professional darts player was a tiler, floors, bathrooms. Makes you as a person as I am at the moment and it's a bit different but I'd rather not wake up at 5am to do that job, I'd rather do what I do at the moment," said Van Gerwen to Moneybarn.

"I was crap at football so I went to do something else. I was better than other kids my age who played darts so I won most of the times. From there on, I played more and more."

On the toughest part of being a darts player, he admitted that it's family time but sthat he knows he is in a good position as a result: "Probably the change because I'm away now a lot. I'm away from my family, friends, it changed a lot but it's the choice I made. I can't complain about my life, I'm a privileged man."

"I think the biggest highlight was my first World Championship win but I've won a lot of tournaments since then. Every tournament has something special anyway."

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