Stephen Hendry Quotes

The play-offs are a great occasion to be involved in; the semi-finals were amazing. When you're in it it's special and you do enjoy it but if you are in it, you have to win it. It's a lot of pressure.

There are always games where you play for important things, but the semifinal of the Champions League is a responsibility.

To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.

There is something about a cup final that brings out a different quality in a footballer. Do they have the courage to win a one-off match?

Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.

A lot of teams who go on to win trophies lose in quarter-finals or semi-finals first.

In 2011, 2012, running for those championships, every point matters.

It's the Playoffs. This is what you play for.

The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we're playing into November every year.

When you're part of a World Cup, it's always now or never.

I've been lucky enough to play in the final of a World Cup before, but it's always an amazing experience to walk out at a packed stadium.

40 seems to be the new 25 in snooker so there is no rush, but I would like to start hitting the time where I'm more stable and regularly hitting the quarters and semis, push on and make some money.

In the regular season you always say, 'Take it one game at a time.' But the playoffs, they kind of make you do that.

Once you step on the court, you see the crowd, you see the final, you see I'm here playing another Wimbledon final.

I love to play finals. I love to play on the big stadium.

It's in the knockout games that you discover who the great players really are.

As a player, perhaps you have the chance to take part in a World Cup or a European Championship twice or three times in a lifetime. Other competitions, you have another match three days later. Here, it's different: we know we're out if we don't win.

The worst loss in my career - the 2002 World Championship final against Peter Ebdon.

It is always great to be a position like this, where you play for everything because it is so exciting.

Not only did I have to face the great Steve Davis for 10 years, Stephen Hendry came along, who attacked the balls. He was such an incredible potter with self-belief.

Starting in a World Cup is always complicated, hard, and important. When you start well... The rest of the competitors are watching. I think it's the most important match in a World Cup, along with the final.

It's the playoffs, man. If you don't get excited about the playoffs, you don't even deserve to be playing basketball.

Nobody can really dominate like Stephen Hendry or Steve Davis. The players are just too good for that.

All games are huge, especially division games, and the ones at the end of the year matter the most.

I joke that every time I'm in the playoffs, it feels like I'm in the Super Bowl.