"Some people would have loved to see Maradona play, others might have rather seen a different style of play - but Maradona captured the brilliance a bit like Lionel Messi. What a great sportsman and what he did on the football pitch was incredible.
"We should celebrate what was a great life.
"There are seven billion people on the planet - there have been so many billions of people - and yet you can name 10 that have taken the world by storm in sporting terms and Maradona was one of them. Maradona had the world in his hands, like Mike Tyson, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Muhammad Ali. O'Sullivan, who is chasing an eighth UK title said: "I have always said I would rather have a short life with tremendous highs than a long life in which you are beige. With more ranking title wins (37), Triple Crown event victories (20) and centuries (1,070) than any player in history, O'Sullivan can lay claim to being the greatest snooker player of all time, and after his match paid tribute to football legend Diego Maradona, who died aged 60 on Wednesday. O'Sullivan came into the event after being beaten by world number one Judd Trump in Sunday's Northern Ireland Open final and made light work of Irish amateur Fernandez with breaks of 121, 60, 59 and 73.
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