Running: The Autobiography

by Ronnie O'Sullivan

He does it all for the best reasons, but it doesn’t always come out the best way.

The bottom line is, these are my friends, these are the people I work with, this is my mum, and I don’t want to be in the middle. My family mean the world to me, I love them to bits, but I’ve had it with being the middleman. If

Sometimes you’re desperate to share stuff with people, but if it’s going to provoke a reaction that’s going to make you unhappy, you start to withdraw and keep important things to yourself. Sometimes people are just too close to you, and if you’re upset with something and you tell them, they just take it too personally or it causes them too much hurt.

‘To pot one red and black and then ask the referee if there’s a 147 prize is pure genius. No other player would have done that. He knew there wasn’t a prize, he was just setting it up. No one is bigger than the sport but he does make it more attractive when he does something like that.’

You feel that everybody else is enjoying themselves, having a good time, and inside I’m feeling so uncomfortable. I just want to be in my room, on my own. I want to duvet dive, I want to watch the telly, get loads of room service sent to me, I want to start smoking, go on my mate’s barge and sit there and moan my bollocks off because he doesn’t care. Little