Ronnie O’Sullivan admitted that he wishes he could play another sport rather than snooker.<\/p>\n
That’s down to the mental toll that snooker takes on the Rocket, who compared it to chess and would rather play football instead.<\/p>\n
He told TNT Sports: \u201cI can\u2019t switch off, no. It\u2019s with you all the time. Even when I\u2019m at home practising. If I\u2019ve had a dodgy day, I go home and I\u2019m sitting there and I\u2019m like quiet, moody.<\/p>\n
\u201cSort of like in my own head and the missus is looking at me, thinking, \u2018come on, liven up\u2019. I say snooker\u2019s like chess with balls. It\u2019s one of them sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see chess players. There\u2019s a lot going on in their heads. But with footballers, you just have a laugh and a joke. I envy it. I wish I could have been a footballer. They look like you\u2019re having a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie O’Sullivan admitted that he wishes he could play another sport rather than snooker. That’s down to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25950,28100,18515,10380,28098,22043,28099,28097,22042,79,16,15,18411],"class_list":{"0":"post-52488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-john-higgins","9":"tag-mark-williams","10":"tag-ronnie-osullivan","11":"tag-snooker","12":"tag-snooker-live","13":"tag-snooker-news","14":"tag-snooker-schedule","15":"tag-snooker-score","16":"tag-snooker-scores","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-world-snooker-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114405094468477448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}