Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.
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One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
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This is a stepping stone to bigger things hopefully. We'll celebrate it tonight. We needed the performance we've been talking about this week for the whole of the Six Nations and to put it in to win the Triple Crown feels good.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It feels great to be a two-time Six Nations winner.
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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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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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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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I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson.
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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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I would say I thrive in a competitive environment.
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You want to win everything you are in.