Ronnie O’Sullivan: Idols, Rivals and Legacy | Snooker Vodcast | Eurosport

[@brendank5413]

I love how he said he's just sitting here doing nothing, not missing the game at all, and then 3 months later he won his sixth world title. Not caring seems to be Ronnie's super power.

[@brendank5413]

@Ricky Bowen that's true, and he could even be doing it to try and convince himself that he doesn't care

[@lukelushington6485]

Nice to see Ronnie in a relaxed mood, he talked a lot of sense in that. Great stuff👍🏻

[@jamesgoing4527]

Ronnie's legacy is longevity his 19 majors 36 ranking titles the most premier leagues the most centuries and 147s and his aura and presence is unique nobody like him..... The greatest in the most competitive era ever🙏 LEVELS

[@laddersman]

147 in 5 mins 20 seconds also thats one shot for Ebdon lol .

[@itnaklipse1669]

Many thanks to ES for uploading these Vodcasts to YT!

[@SC-rn1uc]

Could've watched another hour of this! More of these podcasts please

[@jamesgoing4527]

Everytime we debate snooker as in era's competition and standards I always think of the late Paul hunter he was defo a future great he has it all and brought a new audience to the game...... Imo his game would suit any era taking far to soon RIP 🙏

[@Andy-Bodhi]

Maximum respect for your comment

[@jamesgoing4527]

Great interview I always said John Higgins was his main rival in the most competitive era ever.... John Higgins for me the 2nd best player ever giving the competition standard and era the level they played at was legendary 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@_the_concestor_8185 I agree with that sir...... Hendry played nobody but a pissed up Jimmy White nor did Davis for that matter......Ronnie's longevity is as good an achievement as his 19 majors 100% the greatest ever🙏🙏

[@mariogmajner6549]

@@jamesgoing4527 Not a fan of Hendry's but his maximum breaks alone show you are talking bollox

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@mariogmajner6549 now now don't get upset just because wot you know about snooker you cud write on the back of a stamp 🤣🤣19 majors 36 ranking titles the most premier leagues the most centuries and 147s as in 15 yes 15 maximums make him the greatest🙏facts and figures and numbers for that matter don't lie he owns the champ of champions and is on 3 shanghai masters in a row in the most competitive era ever in snooker keeping sponsors happy and viewing figures up all on his own terms never been a slave to the game........ Do try keep up🤔

[@DavidDavid-yz2sh]

@@jamesgoing4527, till date did ronnie win 7th or 8th world title yet? It's been 28th year for ronnie! Even ronnie he himself said every top player or most of the top player has a time frame of 10 years than u start declining, if u put it that way about hendry, then that makes no sense, till date did ding win any world title yet? John still stick to 4 worlds, just simply imagine this ok, if PETER EDON could win even one world in yr so called Era, how strong is truly the 2000 Era?? Peter was in hendrys Era. Trust me friend, if hendry was still prime in the 2000era, I would say hendry would still hv won 5 worlds. Note hendry almost won his last 8 worlds in the 2000era onwards.

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@DavidDavid-yz2sh omg ring steve Peters ffs or have a cup of hot water hendry beat nobody...... His 4 final wins against is all he has winning with no fear no rival nó pressure.... Honesty wot u know about snooker you cud write on the back of a stamp 😂

[@oldskoolfool141]

Gotta love Ronnies gaff, that 'Essex idea of style' lol

[@jamesgoing4527]

9 months without hitting a ball 9 years partying lack of discipline lack of appetite to win makes this players achievements greater than any other as even with all these off the table issues he still managed to win 19 majors 36 ranking titles the most premier leagues the most centuries and 147s keeping hendry Higgins Williams Selby robbo ding and trump to name but a few at bay entertaining us for decades keeping snooker afloat in the most competitive era ever keeping sponsors happy and viewing figures up all on his own terms never been a slave to the game or politically perfect...... The aura and presence off the man is unique nobody like him everything he does and says makes headlines...... Our snooker god the greatest ever who is now not only a player pundit but now a Brand 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@dreamsreselling7215]

Absolutely spot on 👏👏

[@jamesgoing4527]

I've looked at so many silly comments and the odd intelligent question so here you go for the last time folks...... I know snooker period Ronnie is a genius so anything is possible he's reinventing his game every year and still playing 🙏to date he's won 19 majors 36 ranking titles the most premier leagues the most centuries and 147s keeping hendry Higgins Williams Selby robbo ding and trump to name but a few at bay entertaining us for decades keeping snooker afloat in the most competitive era ever keeping sponsors happy and viewing figures up all on his own terms never been a slave to the game or politically perfect.... THIS IS CALLED ATTENTION TO DETAIL 🤔like I said before he can take 9 months off come back and win the masters he can win the world's in 2012 take a year off coming back to defend his title in 2013 not loseing a session in the final to a prime Hawkins he has lost 9 years of his career partying due to the lack of discipline and appetite imo and yet he's still racking up these numbers......... He owns the shanghai masters and although he's not the holder of the champ of champs he owns that aswell then only last year he beat judd and robbo 2 win the inaugural coral series returning to world number 1 at 43 so anything is possible his aura and presence is unique nobody like him everything he does makes headlines his longevity is legendary........His main rival over the years has been himself his head to head between any of his rivals are all in Ronnie's favour only matched by the pretender to the throne in judd trump who to date has 3 majors that's 1 triple crown at 30 years of age...... Yes hendry was a machine but your career is not defined by 1 tournament in a weak era with poor opposition and your main rival been a pissed up Jimmy White.... Yes Trump has potential but to date it's still untapped fully he is a great shot maker like Jimmy and Alex but only plays these famous shots when frames are won and if he plays them in play it's because his cue ball as in the white ball is poor unlike Ronnie's who has it on a string 👌Ronnie has a few years left in him he will let you know when he's done so let's just enjoy him whilst we can folks he's the greatest numbers figures and facts don't lie🙏🙏he's done all this with mental health issues family problems and drama mostly in 3rd gear 😇 LEGEND

[@SnookerFan-kl1jj]

@Jagdeep Phull If he is in the mood Ronnie could win the next three.

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@SnookerFan-kl1jj exactly he's a genius 🙏

[@schipp3525]

Stop commenting the same things on every snooker video

[@MakeAllThingsBeautiful]

well done Eurosport for putting an older video, annoying in that it isn't post 2020 Crucible, even so good interview

[@raymondthomadwormald9621]

Good lad Ronnie , you just tell it how it is ...... best snooker player ever ..... GENIUS ...... and we’ve been lucky 🍀 enuff to see him go

[@stephendonovan6773]

Great interview 👏👏👏

[@CushtyMiguel]

Nice words for Judd from Ronnie 😄

[@jamesgoing4527]

Ronnie always gives credit hates taking or getting it he will always be the greatest changed the game for the better and now the only snooker player in history to become a brand he is without doubt the Billygoat 🙏

[@Kornhulio18]

@@_the_concestor_8185 Too bad that there's no real competition anymore. So I fear it's gonna be a one sided era like Hendry's.

[@jb894]

@@Kornhulio18 would be good if Trump wins many titles

[@scorps192]

@@Kornhulio18 wrong evidently

[@markjagger2412]

Should’ve acknowledged Neil Robertson as someone who can still give an on form Judd a match. Yes I think Judd’s best game slightly edges Neil’s but Robertson recently edged a final where both played well

[@stagumphs]

Liverpool Victoria final vs Hendry which ended 10-9. Amazing match.

[@randomviral1881]

0:45 idk why that hurt me means retirement is on the way

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@_the_concestor_8185 wise words🙏

[@mrb018538]

_ Arkadi _ he hasn’t got long left realistically. He’s nearly 45...when he stops competing for titles and mixing it at the top he will jack it in

[@jamesgoing4527]

As Ronnie said and says over the years in his words and he's stuck by them all his career which is legendary he will never be a slave to the game and he will let you know when he's done like in his interview in 2012 here have sum of this I'm still the best player in the world and he ain't go anywhere yet..... not for another 5 years if he wants it he's the governor so let's enjoy him whilst we can🙏he's the greatest 19 majors 36 ranking titles the most premier leagues the most centuries and 147s keeping entertaining us for decades now in the most competitive era ever in snooker 🙏

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@mrb018538 he's 44 he beat judd and robbo in the final 2 win the inaugural coral series only last season to return to world number 1 at 43..... Ronnie will let you know when he's done and its not for a long time yet so enjoy him whilst you can..... Ya hear ya read things on here🙈 its hilarious as wot most I say most not all you know about snooker you cud write on the back of a stamp and there wud still be space 🤔

[@RJ-dx5sx]

but he managed to get another world championship 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@dcorks8595]

Ronnie is the goat.....

[@cloudstrife206]

Ronnie 🐐

[@MrGloryglorymanutd18]

If you think back to 2010 it looked like this guy who was 34 at the time seemed finished,10 years on and he's 44 and he's won 2 world's 3 masters 3 uk titles and caught Hendry in ranking titles.The man's 44 now guys so it's impossible to keep it up

[@reacey]

He's still got the ability though, he's still got every shot in the book, I think judds riding a confidence wave

[@jamesgoing4527]

Like Ronnie says you don't tell him when he's done watch his ITV interview cause in his words ya hear things his response to his 2012 world title win over carter I'll tell you when I'm done here have sum of this I'm still the best player in the world and he is still doing it to date defying logic....... Don't write him off I let you know when I'm done again his words and it might be another 10 years if I want it....... have sum of that🤔BOOM

[@lap19]

Make it 3 worlds now

[@jamiedickinson342]

I think Neil Robertson can still beat Judd when he plays well.

[@MartinParnham]

I love watching Robbo and he can be unplayable when he’s on form but I just feel he’s always got a bad game, or a bad run in him for some reason. Trump used to have it too (which, for me, is why he hadn’t won a worlds before) but he has been consistently at a higher level than anyone else since he beat Ronnie in the Masters.

[@adammccallum9409]

I agree with this! I think there will be a few surprises for Judd along the way, I think Ronnie didn't really think before he said that

[@jamesgoing4527]

He's only unplayable against inferior opposition his cue actions just goes under pressure but hes a top player and more importantly a nice family man🙏

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@adammccallum9409 Ronnie knows best he's played them both on numerous occasions so I think his judgement and opinion should be respected he knows there games inside and out....... People on here wot they know about snooker you cud write on the back of a stamp 👎👎👎👎

[@nomanmohd4589]

Yaa But when Judd plays well? Its a Matter of Luck.

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

Ronnie's Biggest Idol (literally speaking) STEPHEN LEE

[@jamiebanner3000]

Should Steven Lee be part of the class of 92? Many believe he could have been O'Sullivan's greatest rival. Probably the greatest cue action the games ever seen. In some ways was as talented as O'Sullivan, Higgins, Williams. Some of his shots was unbelievable. He would have won more money playimg snooker the irony. Is a story there In itself.

[@Deadeye1967]

He was 38 when banned, no spring chicken, if he wasn't his rival at 38 doubt he would've found the consistency to become that. He won five ranking titles between 1998 and 2006 and no more up until his ban in 2013, results suggest he'd already peaked. To me he had the cue action but not the snooker brain.

[@nomchompsky3012]

He's the forgotten man. His cue power was ridiculous, rivalled only by Judd Trump.

[@pubglitegaming8360]

Tell ronnie hes the best thanks andy

[@joshheinink]

You don't lose your ability if you take a break

[@oliverk952]

A nod to the Oyster card

[@jamesgoing4527]

As long as he's happy that's the main thing for me..... Simply the greatest 19 majors 36 ranking titles the most premier leagues the most centuries and 147s keeping hendry Higgins Williams Selby robbo ding and trump to name but a few at bay entertaining us for decades 🙏

[@luckyssoul3136]

Do you really think he don’t care or he doesn’t practice wake up he is the best because he has a gift and he tries all the time to be the best

[@scottquiggyquigg7479]

You never ask him about Stephen seven hendry why not ????

[@iancarpenter6298]

snooker players need a break...nice pun ron.

[@livingbeing1113]

It may be Trump's era now, like some say, even Ronnie himself, but for now the Rocket is still going strong at 44 years old. 6th WSC, possibly one or two more left in him, to finally put the redundant Hendry's myth and comparison to rest. ROS is the GOAT, and it's not even close.

[@jamescoulter5600]

Ronnie need the time too recharge then he is unbeatable,just hope he beats hendries 7 titles in an era with better player.

[@charlesscottkelly]

Get Mark Selby on please, eurosport

[@scorps192]

Selby is death warmed up

[@DonLusher]

Put your feet up and enjoy yourself :-)

[@hystericalwolf]

Disappointing to hear he doesn't miss it, which tbh, I feel like is a lie. But I'm also not surprised.

[@Kornhulio18]

Of course he is lying. It's Trumps era now and deep down he knows it.

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@Kornhulio18 this clown again how can it be judd trumps era or how is Ronnie lying ffs the man has been picking and choseing his tournaments for years now and as for judd he's not won enough yet..........another Ronnie hater 👎

[@michaelschmidt3334]

I like it when he said he has nothing to proof so true

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@michaelschmidt3334 exactly he has done it all and then some🙏

[@SnookerFan-kl1jj]

@@Kornhulio18 Trump's era LOL. 12 losses in 18 events this season, including losing his defense of the Masters and also flopping at the UK, two of the big three. If that is a preview of his era, happy days.

[@jakhaughton1800]

Funny none of the young Chinese players were mentioned.

[@haroldkane9714]

Coronavirus

[@ubeenlookingforthis]

Is it just me or can anyone in the USA understand a word Ronnie is saying?

[@draiocht79mf]

Poor oul Ken Doherty got well ripped there!

[@dixon296]

Is desperate for him to say he learnt of followed Jimmy White Style but he said it about 3 or 4 times but he followed Davies and looked at his game for pointers

Trump seems to have taken up the mantle, and I doubt Ronnie will beat him again?

[@jamesgoing4527]

Don't be silly Ronnie is far from finished and by the way at 44 years of age there head to head is 13 wins a piece having played 26 times...... Never doubt him he will tell you when he's done and its not for another 10 years if he wants it🙏 Ronnie he's the greatest enjoy him while you can 👌

[@SnookerFan-kl1jj]

Yeah we'll see. He can enjoy his 15 minutes.

[@jamesgoing4527]

Trump is a pretender to the throne a shot maker at best with 3 majors at 30👎👎👎👎👎1 triple crown🤔

[@SnookerFan-kl1jj]

@@jamesgoing4527 The head to head does not tell you that on the biggest stage Trump came up short against Ronnie (WC SF 13 & UK F 14). Also Ronnie put one over Trump only last season at the Coral, a match I was privileged to watch live and one of the best between the two.

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@SnookerFan-kl1jj I think they have played 26 times 13v13 not bad for a washed up 44 year old🤔Ronnie beat him in Shanghai and in the champ of champs in 2014 same year he done him in the UK final👌

[@eltrueno8923]

I LOVE me a NUMPTY!!!

[@petraskvarc317]

andy🤦‍♀️

[@jamiebanner3000]

Agree Hendry was the best player in 90s. Obviously. But I think Davis lost his game. Because there was people from the 80s performing better than Davis in the 90s. Lot of them didn't necessarily improve by loads. Davis has to look back on back and think what went Wrong. Because he came back 97? And won a major. In 2005 he got two and major final? Showing that he was better than those players. Makes no sense... Today's game. I get why people say that about Judd. Because Sean Murphy, Niel Robertson I think there's a couple of others? But I'll use them. They came through won the title everybody expected better things. especially Sean available came onto the scene the same way Judd trump did... Camera thing that a player comes through with the title then nothing... It's yet to be seen. Only Selby has lived up to the expectations.

[@jamesgoing4527]

Absolute nonsense remark 🤔

[@jamiebanner3000]

@@jamesgoing4527 How? Jimmy White got to multiple world finals. John Parrott won the world in 90s. Davis was wiping the floor with them in the 80s.. They wasn't better than David man. Even Ray Reardon in his mid 40s won an event in the 1990. But there's an argument that Ray Reardon in his prime was better than Davis lol. Reardon most consistent player of all winning events until he retired Davis lost his game simple as that. A bit like Mark Williams who came back to win the World. Davis came back to win the masters in 97. Still showing he was better player most in the 90s really underperformed. Said it himselfhe started to get intimidated by younger players.

[@jamesgoing4527]

Trust me your rhetoric and attention to details is biased..... Wud you agree Selby has overachieved given his limitations on the baize?

[@jamiebanner3000]

@@jamesgoing4527 I remember Davis in the 90s and he was not the same player. HIs demeanor was all different. He was getting knocked out in first rounds in some competitions. Yet he won the masters in 1997 16 of the world's best players? And Yet John Parrott wins the world? just going by if you watch Jimmy White vs Alex Higgins in the 1982 wouldn't say he improved by much. I have no doubt Stephen Hendry would have won his seven world titles regardless because he was a better player Davis Stephen Hendry one of the greatest players of all time no argument. But Davis should have been his biggest rival not Jimmy White. That's all I'm saying. Selby has a game plan to win Messy. But I'm starting to think people have found it out now. And kind of know what to expect from him. He can still win tournaments but people are more prepared for his game now. I kind of think Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy, Neil Robertson different players but similar standard. Shaun Murphy keeps beating Judd Trump kind of his bogey player. The most underachiever is definitely Mark Williams though.

[@jamesgoing4527]

@@jamiebanner3000 I agree hendry wud of won 7 regardless..... playing average players at best I mean an unprepared pissed up Jimmy White 4 times puts him up there in the conversation .....the Williams victory was impressive imo he'd of struggled to compete let alone dominate the 1 tournament he's famous for against players like Murphy in fact I call hendry the modern day Murphy also players like Allen Hawkins Perry Carter let alone players like Higgins Williams Selby robbo ding and trump regularly i won't even mention the greatest in Ronnie O'Sullivan👌