Stephen Hendry Quotes

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

You are under some sort of pressure to win any match. It is natural.

I just can't put the pressure on of winning a championship, winning a championship, because then I'd never be able to sleep.

I think we all have had better days in competition.

At all big clubs, there is pressure. They all want to win and expect to win.

I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.

Any fight I feel pressure, just the same as the last one, the next one will be just as important.

The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d'Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don't know what will happen. This pressure is inside you - you always have it.

There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.

I can't remember ever racing without any pressure.

I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.

I never think: 'If I crash, I'm going to hurt myself.' I might think: 'If I crash, I'm not going to win.' Everything's about that finish line.

When you're in the second set and you start thinking I have to win this and get it over, the pressure to finish quickly can get to you.

Winning is like an addiction, but I'm also afraid of losing.

Being the headliner is only more pressure if you're not very good.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

Every time I'm practicing, playing or prepping, Majors are always going to be the ones everybody wants to win. But putting the urgency or too much pressure on yourself is not going to do any favors.

I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.

As I always say each time I start a tournament, I want to go as deep as I can.