Brian O'Driscoll
Brian O'Driscoll
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth21 January 1979
CountryIreland
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What do you remember about Jason Robinson? His feet. Not how improved he was under a high ball or his kicking skills. Everyone remembers those feet. He could go round you in a phone box.
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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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I found in the past when I did a bit of punditry, I was very conscious of not saying anything negative about people I played against, because players are elephants and they remember when someone says something - I stored things for years and just waited for my opportunity.
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Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won't allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.
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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.
You want to win everything you are in.
best life people perspective
You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.
You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.
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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.
The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.
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The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.
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My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.
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It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.
realise
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.