The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
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I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.
I would go back to when I was 14 and keep to my own style of playing snooker. I was perfect, but I didn’t think I was, so I started playing like everybody else and created bad habits. With a little more time, I could have been the ultimate player. I look at my career and I probably got 75% out of it instead of 100%.
My failures have taught me more than the successes, so not much.
The years between 13 and 17, which I think are very formative, and the rather arid public school upbringing I had at Harrow.
In 2006, I went fishing for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. On the way back, one of the engines caught fire and then we had one engine for 70 miles. Slowly but surely, we got to Baton Rouge in the darkness but then got very close to a very large passing ship – they didn’t see us and we didn’t see them.
Unfriendliness.
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
Full of passion and laughter.
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
Absolutely nothing.
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