Frank Adamson, my first coach, for not spending more time with him in his later years. I feel bad about that.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan
English snooker player
United Kingdom · b. 1975
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Raised in Essex, O’Sullivan, 47, won his first UK Championship at the age of 17. He is regarded as the greatest snooker player of all time, having won seven world, seven Masters and seven UK titles. He is currently the world No 1. He published his first autobiography, Ronnie, in 2003; his latest, Unbreakable, has just been released. He lives in Essex with actor Laila Rouass and has three children.
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As someone that loved what they did, embraced it wholeheartedly and never quit.
I would go back to when I was 14 and keep to my own style of playing snooker. I was perfect, but I didn’t think I was, so I started playing like everybody else and created bad habits. With a little more time, I could have been the ultimate player. I look at my career and I probably got 75% out of it instead of 100%.
It makes you feel like you want to live.What is the worst job you’ve ever done? Doing the audiobook of the first book. It was hard. I couldn’t do that again.
I’ve got no patience.
That they think they know it all.
Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
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