Stephen Hendry Quotes

It's always fun to play against the best players. That's how you improve yourself.

I think all you can do is prepare properly for every game but you also have to be realistic. Be realistic about what you are as a team.

Sometimes I do things in training and think, 'Ah! I need to do that in a game. If I do I will be close to my full potential.'

You grow up always thinking you'd be in pressure situations all the time, and that's why I put pressure on myself in practice, so when those situations come in the game I feel I can be successful.

My nerves tend to dissipate once the match starts. When I know I've practiced as much as I can and I do my best and leave it all out there, I feel OK no matter what happens.

Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.

There's days in training where everything flows and days in training where they don't. You just pray that doesn't happen the night of the fight.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!

I trained myself to perform on the field.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

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.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

Feelings aren't going to help me win a game.

When you don't play those big matches for a few years, it's tough to play back-to-back after that.

It's all about practice and more practice. Travel to tournaments, play in them, watch other players.

I always feel like I can play better.

As a player, you have to focus on the match and not too much on the surroundings.