Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
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I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
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Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
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I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.
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In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.
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Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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I love receiving fan mail.
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If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
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Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
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The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
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I still feel like I've got a lot of great football in front of me and the way that I've taken care of myself better the last few years. I think is going to put me in position to be able to play really well late in my 30s and even in my early 40s, possibly, if they'd like to keep me around that long and I can still play a little bit.
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Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
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Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
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To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
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Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.
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I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.
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I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.
