What's that lesson?

He has bundles of humility now but didn't when he lost to Dennis Taylor in 1985. A winner at sport has to be selfish and have total focus.

He's probably to humble, he constantly plays down his achievements. To me he's the greatest player ever to hold a snooker cue

@@tonester09 In the 80’s yes

His humility is frankly amazing. Its like he is two different people ,the player and commentator are fundamental opposites. Then of course is his having a 5000 record blues record collection.

Agreed

And Steve is virtually tearing up due to the respect he has for Lonnie.

MJbestMJbest Hendry’s the greatest of all time.

Glad it's all about you.

Hendry is 3rd in my view because he didn’t have longevity. At his peak he’s 2nd behind Ronnie

Hated him in the eighties but what a player he was. Humble here and that speaks volumes for me .

Absolutely agree with you.

Damn good point... And yet Lewser Hamiltwat has been recommended??? Steves done way more sport than that crybaby has

Because he isnt a pedo

Her Majesty is a Jimmy White fan

I just don't think you'll ever get a Sir Snooker... Ronnie & Hendry should be in the conversation too...

Probably have access to his search histor and thought...nah

Agreed

Glad it's all about you.

Angelino...…..Totally agree. Steve Davis is very honest in his assessment of the standard of both himself as well as other players in 'his day'. Indeed, it's very telling that despite the fact he regularly 'crushed' many of his rivals - he only accumulated 355 competitive century breaks during his entire career! [compare that with Ronnie O'Sullivan who has over 1000!] What led to Davis being so successful was that he practiced far longer and harder than anyone else. Davis studied billiards and snooker legend Joe Davis's technique religiously. He also developed a very close relationship with revered and revolutionary snooker coach Frank Callan - who worked tirelessly with him to hone his technique, especially his cue action, how to address the shot, cue ball control, follow-through [Davis would stay down for 5-10 seconds after making the shot] and so on. Nobody else at that time had the same levels of dedication and commitment. In fact, Alex Higgins [who was my favourite player in the 70's & 80's] and exceptionally 'gifted' was technically dreadful. That's why once Higgin's natural talent began to fade he had no technique to fall back on. Unfairly, Davis was labeled as 'boring' and 'dull' because of this - yet in a way, he was the forerunner to the 'modern' snooker player.

@@thesoultwins72 Yes he only accumulated 355 century breaks because the cloth was much harder to play on. It was a lot thicker. They decided to make the cloth a lot thinner in the 90s and so reds would break easier and game more exciting. It is a big mistake to think "oh he got fewer centuries." And note that with a thicker cloth, the general standard of play would be "lower" because of fewer high breaks etc. Another, there are way many more ranking tournaments now than in the 80s. In the early 80s there were only 2 ranking tournaments a year. You need to take all that into account. Davis would still have dominated if he'd played during these days.

@@johnhiggins1600 agreed👍

the top 3 of all time..........for now, Judd could well be the best of all time

Jimmy white is his all time.

@SavageArfad in the last year who has been the dominant player, he is 5th on most centuries and 8th for ranking titles, Ronnie has said he expects Judd to over take his ranking titles, you're obviously a casual

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@@stuart4860 this comment aged so poorly 😂

I love how honest Steve Davis is about his career. Very few elite sportspeople are humble enough to analyse their era and say it wasn't as good as the current era. What I would say is, Davis sells himself short - he still made 300+ centuries in an era when the done thing was to score 70-80 then play safe. If he grew up in the 90s he would've been a much better player.

Make your mind up you cant two greatest players there has ever been!!😂😂😂😂😂

Shut your mouth.

Steve Davis gave other players huge hammerings even in finals!!!

@@Realpoweronearth He sure did.

😂😂😂😂😂 He sure has.

yes so true

Tune into Hendry's Cue Tips... then you'll revise your view of Mr. Bean / Paul McCartney / Rodney Trotter being the best snooker interviewer. Lol.

Plenty found a way to not like him. He only became popular when he started to lose. Great champion and the bar wasn't just raised Steve raised it

Ronnie is quite a good interviewer.

Alex put it on the map!!!!!!!! His inconsistency and yet never bettered defining moments of magic may have resulted in major underachievement but to exclude him as the one player who put snooker on the map is blatantly ridiculous!!!!!!!

Great comment. That would indeed be the perfect player.

True

Aka Stephen Hendry

@@jameslittler4151 Stephen who?

daniel titmus The Hend! Quite simply the greatest snooker player who has ever lived. At his peak, pure perfection.

To be that great and dominant you need that ego/arrogance/confidence all are basically the same thing

@arsenal0782 Jimmy was always more fun to watch but nobody can take away from Davis the sheer self discipline that won his awesome success

First time I have seen Steve that candid.

I agree. Ronnie chose excellent questions, and this was very informative for a 10 minute interview.

@@timothybolshaw you can tell that these two have the best snooker brains

Asks the question then shuts up for the answer. Wish more interviewers would do this.

Yeah, think Ronnie would only talk like this when he's talking to Steve.

I so agree, back in the 80's I loved to watch Alex, didn't like it when Mr Interesting beat him. Yet all these years on i have grown to respect Steve Davis as a player and as a man. A great guy.

M4 Boar yes I’m excatley the same. My dear old dad bless him was a Davis fan and I was in Alex corner and he ust to wind me up and as we all know most of the time steve would beat Alex when they met apart from on a couple of occasions. What was nice and moving to see is just how much steve respected Alex when you watch any documentary’s there’s real affection there even tho the intense rivalry between them. But know I really like steve and respect him for the legend and lovely guy he is.

No question about that. The 100th ranked player now would easily be a top 3 player in the 80s.

It is true in all sports and will always be this way and I second you loving the fact that he’s such a genuine person who is not afraid to acknowledge the harsh truth

@@24magiccarrot I'm not so sure about that, especially after Ronnie's comments about the lack of depth in the game now ouside the top 50.

@@garyconyers-davies5781 Also, players can't keep improving on an infinite scale.

@@garyconyers-davies5781 Ronnie is so good that’s why there is more depth than ever before.

Great honest read it is👍👍

I think it worked because Ronnie showed him a huge amount of admiration and Steve was flattered and opened up and showed the same admiration back at Ronnie.

Are you the dead ref?