Stephen Hendry Quotes

I want to be a top player.

That is what all the top players do and if you want to be the best you know you are going to get marked.

I've played so many matches in my career so far where I played unbelievable, came up just short.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

For me, I just love running in the big moments. That's always been the way. That is what you work so hard for. You don't work hard to run fast in practice or to run fast at small meets.

The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

My ultimate dream is just to become world champion, and not only once. So that's my dream, and it doesn't matter with which team it is.

I want to become a world-class player.

Two-time world champion - that's my goal.

I wanted to be a world champion.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.

To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

I always love training at crazy times - it's an edge I'm creating over everyone else.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

I'd always said that I'd like to have a title by the next Olympics, so this is a great opportunity, and could be the start of my climb to a world title.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

I like what I am doing. I enjoy all parts of the game - the team building, training camp, game days, the excitement of Sunday... it beats working.

I've always wanted to become a grand-slam champion and to become the best in the world. Without that, the victories aren't as sweet or the defeats as motivating.