30 Quotes by Ronnie O'Sullivan

I know what I want to do and there's no point giving my secrets away.

I thought 'How can I stop playing or give myself an excuse to stop playing? So I snapped my cue on Friday. It was quite fun doing it. It's gone.

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break

At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It’s maybe held me back.

I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven’t got any self-belief. But I haven’t done bad for someone without any self-belief.

My dad’s method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. Ive never been so emotionally ingrained in something – in a person, an object, anything – as I have in snooker.

I’ve been semi-successful. I’ve done all right but I’m not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don’t know.