BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan.
He's arguably the greatest player in the long history of his sport and his career is littered with superlatives.
At 19, he became the youngest Masters winner in history.
Last year, at 46, he became the oldest winner of the World Championships, a title he's won seven, seven times.
He's made over a thousand century breaks, more than any other player in competition, and has held the record for the fastest 147 break since 1997, when he cleared the table in 5 minutes and 8 seconds.
It's not just his wins that have earned his place in the history books, though, it's how he's played the game.
His attack, intensity and flair on the bays earned him the nickname the Rocket, and his ascent captured the imaginations of sports fans around the world.
But there were times when it seemed like he might crash, burn.
But he kept going, kept winning.
And now he says, you're either a fighter or you're not a fighter.
It's something you're given and I know I have that in me.
Resilience, courage, determination.
I'll have the bad day, but the next morning, I'm back at it.
Ronnie O'Sullivan, welcome to Desert Island Discs.
Thank you.
Thank you.