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Ronnie O'Sullivan has won 2 tournaments this play - the Hong Kong Masters and Champion of ChampionsRonnie O'Sullivan has dismissed Shaun Murphy's disapproval of his cognition towards snooker arsenic "water disconnected my back".
Murphy, 40, spoke retired aft the reigning satellite champion said snooker was "insignificant" to him.
The 2005 satellite champion said it was "frustrating" to perceive O'Sullivan and different players speech astir "how small the crippled means to them".
"I americium not funny successful what anyone has got to accidental astir me," the satellite fig 1 told Radio 5 Live.
O'Sullivan, who claimed past period that helium lacks passionateness for the sport, added: "I perfectly vacated a agelong clip ago."
The 46-year-old maintained his caller good signifier with a 6-0 hammering of China's Zhou Yuelong to scope a 19th quarter-final successful 21 appearances astatine the UK Championship successful York.
He was asked by Murphy aft the lucifer if helium had immoderate words of proposal for the 24-year-old Chinese subordinate pursuing specified a dense defeat.
"None," replied O'Sullivan. "I americium not present to springiness advice."
He added: "You ticker the archetypal clip I was connected TV. I ne'er had a occupation with crowds and large occasions. The bigger the occasion, the much I liked it. If you can't grip it, you are going to struggle.
"It's successful your make-up. I deliberation you are calved with the emotion of unit and emotion of the large occasions. You can't thatch that. You person either got it oregon you haven't. That's wherefore winners are winners and immoderate radical don't triumph arsenic much."
O'Sullivan was besides captious of the cognition shown by galore players connected the existent satellite tour, saying nary could grip the unit successful the mode he, John Higgins oregon erstwhile satellite greats Stephen Hendry and Steve Davis could.
"Some guys are conscionable blessed to beryllium present and person a laughter and a joke, immoderate guys conscionable person that axenic aggravated desire, they conscionable emotion the situation and the competition," said O'Sullivan, who won his archetypal ranking rubric astatine the UK Championship successful 1993, aged 17.
"Some radical thrive connected it, immoderate radical don't similar it. Some radical similar it for a portion but past they conscionable can't grip it for that agelong due to the fact that it is not easy.
"Dealing with unit is not an casual thing. I person conscionable grown to bask it."
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