Brian O Driscoll Quotes
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I'm an eternal optimist.
— Brian O'Driscoll
It feels great to be a two-time Six Nations winner.
— Brian O'Driscoll
You never sit on your laurels. It is always a case of trying to work on your deficiencies as much as working on your strengths.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.
— Brian O'Driscoll
The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.
— Brian O'Driscoll
You want to win everything you are in.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I still get a great buzz from rugby.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I would say I thrive in a competitive environment.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I need to worry about the things that I am in control of.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.
— Brian O'Driscoll
The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.
— Brian O'Driscoll
If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
— Brian O'Driscoll
There's ego in all of us rugby players.
— Brian O'Driscoll
As the summer moves on, there are Saturday nights when I come home and find friends I haven't even been out with sitting up in the hot tub.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.
— Brian O'Driscoll
When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.
— Brian O'Driscoll
The victory is always sweeter ... winning things with friends.
— Brian O'Driscoll
It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I didn't know Ian Smith myself!
— Brian O'Driscoll
You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I think training and being dedicated is very important, but one aspect that I always live by is that I enjoy myself in what I do!
— Brian O'Driscoll
I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I've never bought a sports car.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it - it was just a means to an end.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.
— Brian O'Driscoll
If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I'm very much a glass-half-full person.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.
— Brian O'Driscoll
In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.
— Brian O'Driscoll
A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.
— Brian O'Driscoll
When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.
— Brian O'Driscoll
You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I don't really want to be the centre of attention.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Rugby takes its toll.
— Brian O'Driscoll
My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.
— Brian O'Driscoll
You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.
— Brian O'Driscoll
You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I enjoy training so much, sometimes I don't want it to stop.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I'm fairly adventurous with my eating. I've tried kangaroo, and Moreton Bay bugs, which are a kind of lobster, are so good.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.
— Brian O'Driscoll
My missus knows to leave me alone.
— Brian O'Driscoll
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.
— Brian O'Driscoll
That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
— Brian O'Driscoll
