Ronnie O'Sullivan has again voiced his disaffection with snooker , claiming he is just 'using ' the game and has not yet committed to entering next month 's World Championship . The 39-year-old , who has won the UK Championship , the Masters and the Crucible title five times each , has struggled for much of his career with the mental aspect of the game and the demands of the tour circuit . His achievements in recent years are outstanding , winning the 2013 World Championship having barely played all season and the 2014 UK Championship despite suffering with a fractured ankle . Ronnie O'Sullivan claims that snooker does not offer the financial reward and security that it once did . O'Sullivan also said that he has contemplated not entering the snooker World Championship next month . O Sullivan celebrates winning the 2014 UK Championship but hit out at the prize money on offer to players . VIDEO O'Sullivan Into Last 16 . But as this year 's Crucible build-up begins , his commitment is once more in question . 'Snooker is no longer what it once was for me . I just use snooker , rather than letting it use me , ' he told the Guardian . ' I know it sounds crazy but I was n't even sure if I was going to enter the worlds . I probably will but it 's got to the point where I want to give snooker only 20 per cent of my time . 'It 's not something I 'm that bothered about . It 's probably one of my least favourite tournaments . Seventeen days is too long . 'But as a kid , I dreamed of being world champion . ( Then ) I thought if I can win three or four , that would be great . Three ? You 're getting to be a great player . Four ? You 're on a level with John Higgins , who is a master of the game . So I 'm really happy to have won it five times . ' It is a familiar refrain from O'Sullivan . He threatened not to take up his place in the 2014 Masters , polling his Twitter followers for advice only to announce his entry around an hour later . The switch in the world rankings format , from points to a money list , played into O'Sullivan 's hands by allowing him to 'play the system ' - as he put it in 2013 - by focusing on the more lucrative tournaments . O'Sullivan claimed the World Championship tournament is one of his least favourite events due to its length . O'Sullivan has won the World Championship five times already in a highly decorated career . But he remains unhappy and even said he can not achieve financial security through snooker 's 's*** ' prize money - an extraordinary claim even for O'Sullivan , especially as he has already noted : ' I could get by the rest of my life if I never worked again . ' He said : 'If you go back five or 10 years I used to get good sponsorship for my logos . I was on £350,000 even before I hit a ball . Now there is no money in snooker . The top players are suffering now . ' I do n't want it to come across as if I 'm doing this for money . I just want what 's fair . They can say 'you 're getting this amount of prize money ' . But if you 're a top player it 's f****** s*** . I want my security , and snooker is n't going to give me that security . '
Ronnie O'Sullivan believes snooker does not offer him financial security . He claims he now only wants to give snooker '350,000 ' of his time . O'Sullivan also criticised the prize money on offer to top players .