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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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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If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.
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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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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 have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.
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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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The victory is always sweeter... winning things with friends.
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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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Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.
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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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You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.
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The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.
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When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.
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The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.
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That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
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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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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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Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.
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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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I enjoy training so much, sometimes I don't want it to stop.
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You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.
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Was I speared? I think so. Slam-dunked is probably the expression which sums it up best.