HAVING been crowned world champion of the darts world on 15 separate occasions, Phil "The Power" Taylor knows a thing or two about success.

Taylor is widely regarded as the best player in darts history, with more than 150 professional tournament wins to go with his 15 world championships. He has also taken out five, including the past four, Professional Darts Corporation Player of the Year titles.
 
In Adelaide, as part of his Power Down Under tour, Taylor has become arguably the most famous ambassador in Port Adelaide's 142-year history.

He visited the Port Adelaide Power's Alberton base on Wednesday for a glass of wine and a game of darts against the day's other sharp shooter Jay Schulz.

While Port has struggled in 2012, Taylor offered some words of advice, claiming there was no trickery needed to become the best, just a whole lot of hard work.

"Anything you decide to do it's all about preparation and dedication," he said.

"It can be difficult, especially with youngsters coming through now with our sport, because they start earning hundreds of thousands of pounds and that's when you need to be dedicated.

"They must have a great manager to keep them more motivated to get them up in the mornings when it's throwing down with rain or whatever and get them motivated to win titles.

"That's the secret."

Taylor said he had learned the rules to the Australian game since he arrived in the country and was confident it could catch on in the UK - providing his countrymen could also understand it.

The 52-year-old said he'd try and do his bit to promote the Power in England.

"I'll definitely put it on my website, without a shadow of a doubt I'm going to promote it.

"The people watching sport in Britain would love it, because it's very fast and it's not boring.

"As soon as they know the rules I think they'll love it.

"It's exciting for us, because all we get is rugby which slows it down a little bit."

Not surprisingly, Taylor made short work of Schulz in their game of darts on Wednesday afternoon and conceded the 15-time world champion got the better of him on the day.

"He was definitely more accurate than I was today," Schulz said.

 "It's fantastic to finally meet him, I've watched him a bit on TV so it's been great."

Taylor has previously stated darts would make an exciting inclusion into the Olympic Games.

However, looking towards Rio in 2016, he wasn't overly optimistic his wish would be granted by the IOC.

"Pole dancing's going to the next one, so we've got half a chance….if not I'll be a pole dancer," he said.

Harry Thring covers Port Adelaide news for AFL Media. Follow him on Twitter: @AFL_Harry.