Stephen Hendry Quotes

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

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.

Cricketers are worried about their milestones, worried that they should score 5000-10,000 Test runs, but I am not fussy.

I fell in love with scoring a lot of runs. I never felt 50 or 100 were enough.

I don't look at it like I've had a lot of success. I'm always hungry to do more, break records, and things of that sort.

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.

I tried hard to create my own records when a lot of them belonged to Steve Davis, so to see someone else beat yours, you'd be lying if you said there wasn't a twinge of regret there.

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.

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.

My numbers are Hall of Fame.

Snooker is a very good TV sport.

It's good to break records, I love it.

So for me Tendulkar is the greatest but Kohli is not far behind and could well end up as the greatest.

You take records with a pinch of salt. Take Usain Bolt: someone will be quicker than him one day. These things aren't important.

I'm shocked every time that I've reached so many finals or won against so many players or whatever record it is. It strikes me and makes me obviously very happy and very proud that I've been able to do it for so many years at the highest of levels.

The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.

Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.

I don't take breaks, I just break records

I realize there will not be another Gretzky, and I will be the first one to say I will not break his records, .. But for him to say that I could, it means I am doing something right. It was probably the best compliment I could get. I'm going to remember it.

We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes

I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.

All records are made to be broken.