Whilst Ronnie appeared at the height of the game to spectators, these were the moments when he felt at his lowest. Besides quite a few laughs, many readers will find recognition, reassurance, remedy and revelation in O'Sullivan's candid story. In the year 2000 Ronnie started rehab and began the journey to get his life back, addressing his demons and working on developing a stronger and more resilient mindset.

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I phoned Steve up about six months ago, I said, ‘Steve, you're ahead of me in the game, but I’d just like to just cross-reference where I am. For more great interviews listen to The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with cinch weekdays from 6:30am on Virgin Radio, or catch up on-demand here . Reaching a new stage in his snooker career, Ronnie admitted his love of the game, and his incredible talent, is beginning to outweighing his need to win. This is Ronnie O'Sullivan as you've never seen him before, the definitive and unflinching story of a true British icon and a fascinating insight into the mindset of the world's greatest snooker player.He was winning titles - his first within a year of turning professional - but losing himself and his game as he tried to block out the mental pain and misery.

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Snooker legend Ronnie O’Sullivan is breaking down the lessons he’s learnt in his formidable career in his new book, Unbreakable.But nothing compares to this, I’ll never be able to replace it because I'm never going to be as good at anything else as I have been at this. Am I doing alright, because sometimes I've switched off from it's all about the wins to I just love the game.

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Ronnie O'Sullivan OBE is a professional snooker player and is widely regarded as the greatest of all time. I said, ‘I feel guilty sometimes for just enjoying the game, because I know it takes something away from being a winner.

He said: “That was the deal breaker for me, like writing a book I just had to trust, he knew what he was doing. Obviously when you do a book, you want it to be authentic and people have got to read it, so we wanted to do the best job we and Tom did, we put our heart and soul into it. More than twenty years on, Ronnie is still obsessed with delivering his peak performance and never happier than when in a snooker hall, but success has now taken on a new meaning for the record-equalling world champion. VIRGIN and the VIRGIN signature logo are registered trademarks of Virgin Enterprises Limited and are used under licence.

In his second autobiography, Running: The Autobiography, he details how his love for running helped him battle with addiction.He has won a record seven World Championship titles, seven Masters and seven UK championships, a total of 21 Triple Crown titles - the most won by any player. I’ve taken this game to as high a place as I could take it and been better than pretty much everyone else that I've played against.