Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
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As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.
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It's happened a couple of times in training when I hyper-extend my back. Some facet joints send all the muscles in my lower back and lumbar-spine into spasm.
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You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.
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I'm very happy to have been a one-club man, but I wouldn't shoot down guys who have gone off and played in multiple clubs either because, essentially, it is an earning that people are after.
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I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.
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If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.
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I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.
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There's ego in all of us rugby players.
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I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.
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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
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It was a performance that had been coming for a while and it does not shock me all that much. When the pressure came on we produced the goods and we can take great satisfaction from that.
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When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.
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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.
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Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.
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For me, it took five years to understand what professionalism meant. But I'm more settled now. I'm married, life changes, and I've been lucky in managing my injuries.
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You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.
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I've always found when I was captain when other people were doing the talking for me, I didn't need to say as much, and when I did say one or two things, people tended to listen all the more.
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People talk about loyalty of players to clubs. But in the everyday world, you don't see people being loyal to their company when they're getting offered considerably better deals elsewhere.
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You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.
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I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.
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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
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That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
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Was I speared? I think so. Slam-dunked is probably the expression which sums it up best.
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The victory is always sweeter... winning things with friends.