Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
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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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I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.
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I still get a great buzz from rugby.
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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 enjoy training so much, sometimes I don't want it to stop.
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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 used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.
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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.
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There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.
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I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.
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I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.
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A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.
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I would always treat my attacking game as the more natural part. With defence, you have to get yourself in positions to understand the game and understand situations and that might not be as natural a thing.
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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!
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There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.
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I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.
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Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.
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I was quite small as a kid and maybe a little afraid physically. When I grew into myself, the realisation changed. That when you hurt yourself, it's transient; it doesn't stay forever.
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If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.
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I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.
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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.
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You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.
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Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.
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If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.