Stephen Hendry

When you get a trophy, why go jumping and crying? Winning's a great feeling, but everything else is an anti-climax.

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.

Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.

Ever since I was a kid, I'd imagine that I was making a break to win the world championship.

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."

I have always really loved clothes, although I am glad to say that my tastes have mellowed somewhat over the years. When I first played professionally and started to earn big money, almost everything I bought was by Versace.

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 still enjoy a wee game of poker now and then, but I'm not very good, and being Scottish, I don't like to lose that much money!

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 only way you can get confidence is by winning, and unfortunately, the only way you win is by being confident.

I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.

I always loved playing in front of big audiences; now I'm jittery if one person is in the room watching me.