I am trapped in snooker.
I think I was the most natural, charismatic player who ever lifted a cue.
I got into pool tournaments when I was five, playing every weekend in competitions. Then one day I started playing snooker. I learnt by practising on my own, repeating the same shots again and again, and watching other players and copying what they did.
Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
Believe me, I feel the same way now about snooker as I did when I was 13.
Nobody can really dominate like Stephen Hendry or Steve Davis. The players are just too good for that.
I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.
The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.
We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.
It sounds strange to be world champion at the Crucible.
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.
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.
I like to play snooker, golf as well.
I love playing O'Sullivan. It is a bit of a role reversal from when I used to play Alex Higgins.
Snooker is a very good TV sport.
Maybe I could be the playboy of snooker.
I've played 8-ball in Hong Kong and I'm more knowledgeable with that than 9-ball.
Snooker has taken such a step down I am not sure it will recover unless five Ronnie O'Sullivans come along at the same time.
The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.
Snooker lifted me out of depression.
I had such a great affection and love for playing snooker.
People often write to me, addressing the envelope, 'Stephen Hendry, Snooker Player' or 'Stephen Hendry, Scotland,' and it reaches me.
There is money to be made giving trick-shot shows at schools, clubs, tournaments, and even shopping centers. Pool shows on television almost always include a few fancy shots.
I was a big fan of Naseem Hamed, and followed him. Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry and I know him well.
