Running: The Autobiography

by Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Me, Damien and Irish Chris … vital men in my corner. Lovely fellas as well.

  I’ll tell Irish Chris how shit I think I really am at snooker and he just looks at me as if I’m mad. That’s friendship! But here we are with a nice little world trophy.

  In the first half of my career, it was drink and drugs that kept me on the straight and narrow – crazy though that sounds. This time round, it’s been the running that’s kept my head straight. Or at least as straight as mine will ever be. (Tom Jenkins)

  Also by Ronnie O’Sullivan

  Ronnie

  Copyright

  An Orion ebook

  First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson This ebook first published in 2013 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson © Ronnie O’Sullivan 2103

  The right of Ronnie O’Sullivan to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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  ISBN: 978 1409 11224 2

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