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

Good Game Long Frames Visit Winning Pots Bedrock His Trump Getting Creating Chance

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. Stephen Hendry

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. Stephen Hendry

Buy Jokes First Saved Other Changing Considered Bit Signature Williams Cabinet Never Cheap Picked Bought Liked Because Cue Been Years Just Wood Just Because Aged Centre Ages Ever Butt Players Playing

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. Stephen Hendry

The thing is, with century breaks, maximums, ranking tournaments, these sorts of things are automatically going to be broken: it's not if but when. Stephen Hendry

Broken Ranking Tournaments Sort Going Automatically Breaks Century Thing Things

Judd Trump loves playing against the top players. Stephen Hendry

Top Trump Against Loves Players Playing

People often write to me, addressing the envelope, 'Stephen Hendry, Snooker Player' or 'Stephen Hendry, Scotland,' and it reaches me. Stephen Hendry

Me People Addressing Write Envelope Scotland Often Player

When you're young and you first come onto the scene, you're fearless. You just go for your shots and don't really think about the consequences. But as you play on through years and years, you get punished for those misses, and gradually, that leaves scars. It dents your confidence a bit. Stephen Hendry

You Confidence First Young Think Consequences Bit Those Punished Fearless Scars About Scene Through Onto Misses Come Leaves Go Years Years And Years Get Gradually Just Really Shots Your Play

It's the worst feeling in the world - to lose in the first round at Sheffield and then have to go home - because it's such a long tournament, and it's hard to avoid it. It's on the TV all day every day, and if I lost, I didn't want to be anywhere near snooker. Stephen Hendry

Day Home Every Day World Long First Feeling Lose Lost Every Worst All Day TV Tournament Because Sheffield Go Go Home Want Anywhere Then Hard Avoid Round Near

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. Stephen Hendry

When I didn't retain the world title after my first win, which no one's ever done, I was gutted and made my driver take me home straight away. We travelled through the night, and I didn't say a word all the way from Sheffield to South Queensferry. Stephen Hendry

Home Me World Win Word Made First Way Say Through Take Retain Driver Sheffield South Done After Which Title Straight Travelled Away Ever Night

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. Stephen Hendry

Best Day Champion World Losing Wish Practice Big Seven Nineties Out Would Guys Could Never Miss Like Hours Knowing Occasions Hand Hand-In-Hand Did Six Maybe Being Happened Certainly World Champion Peak Playing

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket. Steve Valentine

Work Me People Supermarket Go Wanted Actor

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment. Steven Moffat

You Incredibly Someone Exciting Like Expect Then Moment

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil. Steven Moffat

Me Evil Sounds Brand

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. Steven Moffat

Life Today Day You Experience Every Day Problem Impossible Different Kinds Every Once Kinds See Staying Shakespeare More Audience Five Than Expected Different Fiction Your Twice Ever Play Four

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard. Steven Moffat

Women Statement Possibly Most Because Mothers Reducing Heard Now

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever. Steven Moffat

Think Finite Feel Go Forever Want Stories

I always tend to favor the newer idea. Steven Moffat

Favor Tend Idea Always

I'm a geek. Steven Moffat

Geek

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television. Steven Moffat

Cinema Slow Television Boring Compared

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