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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗
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%.
I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.
Nothing. Without my past I wouldn’t be who I am today.
I wouldn’t care so much what people thought.
I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
Reading the news. It’s a dull job.
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
Recently, when I got out of hospital and into my own bed with my wife and 10-year-old son; we watched some crap television and life had never seemed better.
Comfort, warmth and security.
Gloria Steinem, Emma Barnett, Desmond Tutu, Jeremy Vine, Philip Gould, Bill Clinton
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