Snooker legends ronnie osullivan biography
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I just finished reading “Unbreakable” , Ronnie’s latest book, and I loved it.
I wasn’t sure what to expect TBH. I was afraid that there would be a lot in there that we, the fans who followed Ronnie’s career for years, already know. And, in a way there is, but the book still surprised me, agreeably.
In fact, this is not a sequel to the two previous autobiographies, it’s not an autobiography at all actually. It will not take you through what happened to Ronnie over the last ten years, nor will it it tell you what he won during the last decade, when or who he beat. It’s not that kind of book at all.
The book has 13 chapters, not counting the prologue and epilogue. Each chapter has a distinctive theme and, actually, you can read them independently, in no particular order. Each is about one subject that is important to Ronnie, as a person and or as a snooker player. I each, Ronnie reflects – in a very personal way – on why and how this particular theme is important to him, how it has impacted his life and changed him as a person. Here are some of the themes he reflects on: The Crucible (the venue, no the event), Snooker and his love for it, Being a child prodigy, Practice, his “Lost Years”, Accepting his addictions, Anxiety, what it takes to be a Winner, Family, Relationship with his children (with regrets and pride), his first and his latest World Championships …
It’s a – at times emotional – narration/reflection written at the first person. It’s easy to read and, at the same time, I often found myself thinking “Wait … I may want to read this again, tomorrow”. It’s a habit of mine, a few hours after reading something, to try and gather/structure my thoughts about what I did read and if I find it difficult, It's May 2022 and Ronnie O'Sullivan is sitting in his dressing room at The Crucible in Sheffield, on the verge of winning his seventh World Championship, a feat which will see him draw level with Stephen Hendry's record in the modern era and arguably cement his status as the greatest snooker player of all time. But he can't face going back out to play. "I feel like I've got stage fright," O'Sullivan tells his psychiatrist, Dr Steve Peters. "I feel like I want to cry. I don't even feel like I want to face it. I'm looking at my cue, I feel like my eyes are blurry." The 46-year-old took an early lead in the final, but his younger opponent, Judd Trump, has just won six frames in an afternoon session to battle back to 14-11. "I'm scared mate," says O'Sullivan. This scene, from Sam Blair's new documentary, Ronnie O'Sullivan: The Edge of Everything - which streams on Amazon Prime from Thursday - illustrates some of the torture that snooker's most mercurial talent puts himself through for competition. Ronnie 'The Rocket' O'Sullivan has won almost every major record in the game during a long and distinguished career, but his struggles with depression, alcohol and drugs are well documented. Blair's film is a character study in addiction to snooker perfection as much as anything. It's a dependency that doesn't always seem healthy and O'Sullivan knows the "dark places" that "toxic competitiveness" can take him. "Emotionally, it's got me involved again and I hate this," he says after that poor session against Trump. Last week, on the eve of the documentary's release, O'Sullivan withdrew from the defence of his Champion of Champions title, citing the need to look after his mental hea Date of Birth: December, 5, 1975 Lives in Chigwell, Essex. Professional snooker player Turned pro in 1992 Ranking Tournament Victories: 41 Minor Ranking Tournament Victories: 3 Invitational Tournaments 37 .Ronnie O'Sullivan: Delving into the snooker legend's pain in new Amazon doc The Edge of Everything
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