Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Brian O'Driscoll - Page 2

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

In a team situation, I think the players are more inclined to give the answer they believe the psychologist is looking for rather than maybe being totally honest.

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.

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.

You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.

You want to win everything you are in.

Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.

I don't really want to be the centre of attention.

I'm very much a glass-half-full person.

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.

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.

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.

I'm an eternal optimist.

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.

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.

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.

I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.

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.

I didn't know Ian Smith myself!

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

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!

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.

Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.

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.