His "don't really like snooker" attitude is frustrating as feck, considering he's the greatest player to ever hold a cue.
Love that line.
Amazing isn't it, one minute he loves the game, just enjoying it, next he hates the game. He has his gripes and moans about snooker yet as you say, is the best ever to pick up a cue, its crazy. I just find it amazing how at 42 most players gave up putting in the hours on the practice table and lost interest, Hendry was well done and dusted in his 30's and Davis had the odd crack at a tournament at 50 but was not really any good. Mark Williams is 42 and wins an odd thing or makes semis sometimes but is way off what Ronnie is doing.
No one else can take a year off, come back and win the big one, play with a broken foot in his socks or stop the ref and cause a scene about what the high break prize is after potting the first red then go on and do it just like that. If he wants to he beats anyone on the day, if he's up for it and the only people who can even get clost to him are the ones who slow the game right down to rattle him, Ebdon, Higgins, Selby, all of which are boring to watch by comparison and still not as successful, even John Higgins with all his loot of silverware.
When people look back once he's retired, I doubt many will be arguing about how he didn't win some silly BBC tv 'award'. I think if the panel did select him as one of the ones then Ronnie with his popularity would certainly get a phone network load of calls. Diseaseoftheage would probably make 1000 texts alone.