Stephen Hendry

I'm not the player I was.

— Stephen Hendry

I am not a superstar in Britain.

— Stephen Hendry

You get better as the rounds go on.

— Stephen Hendry

I liked 'The Wire.'

— Stephen Hendry

You have to win any way you can.

— Stephen Hendry

However much I try, I can't shake off the effects of the yips.

— Stephen Hendry

I cannot see a situation when I won't feel pressure to play well and win.

— Stephen Hendry

Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been.

— Stephen Hendry

Judd Trump loves playing against the top players.

— Stephen Hendry

I don't think about technique. I just pot the balls.

— Stephen Hendry

For reasons I don't understand, I've always been relaxed at the table.

— Stephen Hendry

I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.

— Stephen Hendry

It would break my heart to lose playing safe.

— Stephen Hendry

I loved being the best player in the world. There was no pressure staying there.

— Stephen Hendry

It is quite surreal when you go to places up the north, like Inner Mongolia, and you are getting mobbed at the…

— Stephen Hendry

If the World Seniors led to a place directly into the Crucible, then I would take it very seriously because to play…

— Stephen Hendry

When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a…

— Stephen Hendry

People often write to me, addressing the envelope, 'Stephen Hendry, Snooker Player' or 'Stephen Hendry, Scotland,' and it reaches me.

— Stephen Hendry

I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and…

— Stephen Hendry

It's easy to have a good attitude when you're flying, but you need it when you're up against it as well.

— Stephen Hendry

I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to.

— Stephen Hendry

In around 2000, I became aware of a recurring problem of the 'tightness' around my cueing action, which somehow stops me believing…

— Stephen Hendry

There are players out there who want to dominate and keep their opponent sitting down. They want to make centuries and win…

— Stephen Hendry

In China, they appreciate someone who has worked hard. They say it is incredible to win seven world championships. I know it…

— Stephen Hendry

Even when I used to play Jimmy White in Scotland, he would have the majority of the support. That's the only time…

— Stephen Hendry

My favourite store is All Saints. Having spent years dressed in a dinner suit and a bow tie as a professional player,…

— Stephen Hendry

I would never be one to go striding over to any woman who caught my eye - after all, I'm the person…

— Stephen Hendry

When I started, there was never a great history of people doing well in snooker from Scotland. By chance, I got a…

— Stephen Hendry

I am not on tour any more, but I hear things, and there are stories that some players are not as dedicated…

— Stephen Hendry

By the age of 14, I had stopped doing homework and stopped studying - as soon as I had any spare time,…

— Stephen Hendry

In all the years I've been playing, I've never considered changing my cue. It was the first cue I ever bought, aged…

— Stephen Hendry

For me, winning was 'job done.' I would practise the day after.

— Stephen Hendry

Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.

— Stephen Hendry

Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.

— Stephen Hendry

You really have to be winning by the time you get to 20 these days.

— Stephen Hendry

In the '90s, I never socialised with other players.

— Stephen Hendry

When you have a big lead, you relax and don't concentrate as much.

— Stephen Hendry

My form's good in practice, but that doesn't count for anything, really.

— Stephen Hendry

The most I ever played was 12 or 13 tournaments. Now they're talking about almost 20, and it's all year round, playing…

— Stephen Hendry

The thing is, with century breaks, maximums, ranking tournaments, these sorts of things are automatically going to be broken: it's not if…

— Stephen Hendry