Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Hendry
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish entertainer Stephen Hendry.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
In China, they appreciate someone who has worked hard. They say it is incredible to win seven world championships. I know it is, but it's a shame I have to go 10,000 miles to get the whole crowd behind me.
It's easy to have a good attitude when you're flying, but you need it when you're up against it as well.
By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.
I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to.
I liked 'The Wire.'
My form's good in practice, but that doesn't count for anything, really.
The quarter finals is always an exciting round because you know you're one match away from that one table situation: where the magic really starts to happen at the Crucible and where it starts to come into its own.
If I have regrets, it's around my sons. There is no doubt they were affected by the divorce - Carter more than Blaine, I think.
You get better as the rounds go on.
I don't think about technique. I just pot the balls.
When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed.
Financially speaking, I haven't ended my career in the best shape, and there are debts, as well as what is to come by way of a divorce settlement to Mandy.
I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and stayed for about six years.
There are players out there who want to dominate and keep their opponent sitting down. They want to make centuries and win frames at a single visit, and I like to see that.
You benefit from deep inner belief of having wins behind you, so you get to the table, and you know you're not going to miss.
Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.
I liked Dalgety Bay, but my life did not revolve around the house. I was a teenager there, and these things aren't that important at that age.
I put on the tuxedo, and it's like putting on overalls - they're my work clothes. Then I go to work. I'm relaxed. I do my job.
In around 2000, I became aware of a recurring problem of the 'tightness' around my cueing action, which somehow stops me believing that I can play the shot - even shots I could previously play with my eyes shut.
When you get a trophy, why go jumping and crying? Winning's a great feeling, but everything else is an anti-climax.
In Britain, we don't appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you.
The tip I would give is that once you play the shot, make sure your chin is touching the cue after you hit the cue ball.
I would never be one to go striding over to any woman who caught my eye - after all, I'm the person who got to know my wife's parents before I plucked up the courage to talk to her.
Ronnie O'Sullivan is the only player in history to be dominant and popular at the same time.
For me, winning was 'job done.' I would practise the day after.
Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.
I am not a superstar in Britain.
There's no point, me turning up at the world championship as a publicity stunt and then lose 10-3 to someone who shouldn't tie my shoelaces.
If I'm going to play, I'm going to have to give it 100%, which means I'm going to have to play in all of the tournaments that I don't like.
I always loved playing in front of big audiences; now I'm jittery if one person is in the room watching me.
I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite.
It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.
Ever since I was a kid, I'd imagine that I was making a break to win the world championship.
When you have a big lead, you relax and don't concentrate as much.
I'm not the player I was.
I think the word 'yips' trivialises it; it is completely debilitating, like a cancer spreading through your game and just destroying it.
Even when I used to play Jimmy White in Scotland, he would have the majority of the support. That's the only time it would irk me, coming back to Scotland and people still wanting me to lose.
I have always really loved clothes, although I am glad to say that my tastes have mellowed somewhat over the years. When I first played professionally and started to earn big money, almost everything I bought was by Versace.
Steve Davis has found a way of competing to a level that is not as high as it once was, enjoying his wins, and not getting too angry about the defeats.
My favourite store is All Saints. Having spent years dressed in a dinner suit and a bow tie as a professional player, it is wonderful being able to wear normal clothes again.
It is just down to confidence. When I haven't got any, I hate playing the game.
In snooker, it's very important to keep very still on the shot and allow the cue to do the work.
I can't overstate the part the yips played in bringing my career to a close.
When you're young and you first come onto the scene, you're fearless. You just go for your shots and don't really think about the consequences. But as you play on through years and years, you get punished for those misses, and gradually, that leaves scars. It dents your confidence a bit.
I enjoy commentating on the big tournaments for the BBC, the occasional exhibition match, and my business interests.
It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.
You really have to be winning by the time you get to 20 these days.
For reasons I don't understand, I've always been relaxed at the table.
I find it very difficult when, due to a lack of confidence, I don't produce and lose matches I could have won.
I loved being the best player in the world. There was no pressure staying there.
I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.
One of my biggest sponsors is based in China, and I probably spend as much time there as I do in the U.K. Over the years, I have really grown to love it, but the first time I went was a different story.
It would break my heart to lose playing safe.
You have to win any way you can.
I am not on tour any more, but I hear things, and there are stories that some players are not as dedicated as they should be and treating some of these PTC events in Europe as stag weekends rather than tournaments.
You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it's an extension to your arm.
In the '90s, I never socialised with other players.
When I'm practising on my own, my game feels great, but there's a big difference between practising on your own and playing against people.
Larry David, he's my hero. I want to be him - I want to act like him - everything.
There are some people who never get used to losing at anything, and I am probably one of them.
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