Quotes from Stephen Hendry

For me, winning was 'job done.' I would practise the day after.

By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.

If the World Seniors led to a place directly into the Crucible, then I would take it very seriously because to play there again would be incredible.

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

I liked Dalgety Bay, but my life did not revolve around the house. I was a teenager there, and these things aren't that important at that age.

I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite.

Financially speaking, I haven't ended my career in the best shape, and there are debts, as well as what is to come by way of a divorce settlement to Mandy.

It's easy to have a good attitude when you're flying, but you need it when you're up against it as well.

These days, you can watch many different sports; you are saturated with it 24 hours a day. And young boys all want to be footballers because you don't even need to be that good, and you can still earn £100,000 a week.

Judd Trump's bedrock of his game is potting good long pots, getting in, creating a chance, and winning frames at one visit.

The quarter finals is always an exciting round because you know you're one match away from that one table situation: where the magic really starts to happen at the Crucible and where it starts to come into its own.

It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.

You benefit from deep inner belief of having wins behind you, so you get to the table, and you know you're not going to miss.

Steve Davis has found a way of competing to a level that is not as high as it once was, enjoying his wins, and not getting too angry about the defeats.

In all the years I've been playing, I've never considered changing my cue. It was the first cue I ever bought, aged 13, picked from a cabinet in a Dunfermline snooker centre just because I liked the Rex Williams signature on it. I saved £40 to buy it. It's a cheap bit of wood, and it's been the butt of other players' jokes for ages.

There are times when there's been some discontent and muttered threats from audience members. I take no notice, and in any case, I always have John Carroll around to deflect unpleasantness.

My favourite store is All Saints. Having spent years dressed in a dinner suit and a bow tie as a professional player, it is wonderful being able to wear normal clothes again.

I never dreamed, when I received a small table for a Christmas present from my parents, I would have the career that I did or achieve so much.

Even though I say to myself that I was seven-times World Champion, the voice in my head says, 'You can't play this shot.' It's completely mental - quite literally. My confidence is sapped every time this happens.

Maybe I wish I could be out there on the big occasions playing like I did at my peak, but I certainly don't miss the six and seven hours a day practice that went hand in hand with being world champion in the nineties - or losing to guys knowing that it would never have happened when I was at my best.

The seven world titles record I hold is the one that means the most to me. There is no doubt about that.

I could have had eight or nine world titles at least, and you do think about that at times.

If I have regrets, it's around my sons. There is no doubt they were affected by the divorce - Carter more than Blaine, I think.

When you have a big lead, you relax and don't concentrate as much.