Stephen Hendry Quotes

I had such a great affection and love for playing snooker.

I have always loved playing snooker.

In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.

My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

My mom was a championship pool player.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

I love to play pool.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

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

You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it's an extension to your arm.

Believe me, I feel the same way now about snooker as I did when I was 13.

First thing about snooker, find a cue you're happy with. Then stick with it.

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.

I think I'm okay; I got a pretty good shot when I concentrate. I like pool.

Maybe I could be the playboy of snooker.

I love playing O'Sullivan. It is a bit of a role reversal from when I used to play Alex Higgins.

The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.

I got into pool tournaments when I was five, playing every weekend in competitions. Then one day I started playing snooker. I learnt by practising on my own, repeating the same shots again and again, and watching other players and copying what they did.

I am trapped in snooker.

Snooker still fascinates me and I still get a buzz from it.

Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

We bought a sofa with the money I made from 'Thunderbirds,' and I've still got it, and we call it Thunderbird 1. That's literally all I got out of the job.

It's down to me to be fit and in form. You're not guaranteed a place just because you cost a certain amount of money.

I need to be able to save some money, so I can buy a house.