Stephen Hendry Quotes

I enjoy commentating on the big tournaments for the BBC, the occasional exhibition match, and my business interests.
I find it very difficult when, due to a lack of confidence, I don't produce and lose matches I could have won.
I got into poker in the early 2000s. In snooker tournaments, you are always looking for things to pass the time between matches, so we'd play together, or I would play online.
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.
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.
I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite.
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 liked 'The Wire.'
I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to.
I loved being the best player in the world. There was no pressure staying there.
I never dreamed, when I received a small table for a Christmas present from my parents, I would have the career that I did or achieve so much.
I obviously know how good I was, and people refer to the modern game being tougher.
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.
I remember far more shots that cost me matches than the ones that won me matches. That is maybe the way you think if you are someone who has won a lot of tournaments and had a successful career.
I still enjoy a wee game of poker now and then, but I'm not very good, and being Scottish, I don't like to lose that much money!
I think the word 'yips' trivialises it; it is completely debilitating, like a cancer spreading through your game and just destroying it.
I tried hard to create my own records when a lot of them belonged to Steve Davis, so to see someone else beat yours, you'd be lying if you said there wasn't a twinge of regret there.
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.
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.
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.
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