Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
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I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.
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One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
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There is no point winning the semi if you don't win the final. It's as simple as that. No one will remember a big semifinal if you lose the final, so you have to do it all again.
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Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.
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Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.
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When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back.
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I love going out every day and training and being part of the team, and having friendships built up over a number of years. It's those aspects of sport that I feel are really important.
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Clive was the man who had won a World Cup, he had the experience and I was there to back him up and get across what he wanted to do.
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It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time...
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The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
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I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.
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Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.
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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.
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I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.
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It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.
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I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.
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Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.
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The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.
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Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.
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If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.
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You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.
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Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.
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You want to win everything you are in.
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Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.