![]() “There are people stuck in dead-end jobs who have to get up for the alarm, but if you love it then what price happiness? He is chasing his dream and let’s see where it takes him, he must enjoy the ride. ![]() “Oliver at 18 has won a lot as an amateur and that will stop, and he knows it will be littered with disappointments but as long as you enjoying yourself and learning, you take it. ![]() In snooker, with 128 players in most daws, only one can win. “In any sport you have to accept there will be bad times. It is a fantastic game, I still feel that at 44, and a great way to earn your living – if you are capable of it. “It bugs me when I hear players or anyone else moaning about the game. After all, Lines senior has had to take work selling insurance, as a taxi driver and a barman when the money was not flowing in.Ī respectable career, the highlight of which was probably a run the quarter-finals of the UK Championship in Telford five years ago, has never hit extraordinary heights though Peter has loved every minute of it and would change very little.Īnd he suspects that emerging from a less high-profile family than, say, Blaine Hendry or Greg Davis may prove a blessing and also held up five-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan as the example to his son of how hard you have to practice, whatever the talent you may possess in the locker.Īhead of a Far East road trip taking in the Yixing Open and then the Wuxi Classic, for which they both qualified, Peter said: “It has been my career, my living and a great love so to be going out there on tour this season with my son beside me does feel very special. Peter, the world No61 who only just kept his own place last term, insists that Oliver was never railroaded into the same career, and hopes that some of the conversations they have had about the tough times will keep him grounded. PETER Lines seems to have responded pretty well to having teenage son Oliver on tour with him for the first time, winning the Pink Ribbon pro-am event in Gloucester before the season has really even got under way.īut there is no doubt about the pride felt by the Leeds player to see the reigning European Under-21 champion complete the first father-and-son double act on the circuit since Geoff and Neal Foulds in the 1980s. ![]()
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