Brian O'Driscoll
Brian O'Driscoll
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth21 January 1979
CountryIreland
thinking training important
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!
defence rely win
You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.
best dressing possible rooms vicious
Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.
great
I still get a great buzz from rugby.
form
I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.
life
I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.
largely positive stick
If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.
childhood good great rounded
Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.
adrenalin allow bring game games head importance intensity level playing steps train
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.
ball high improved jason kicking phone remembers round
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.
attacking might natural positions situations
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.
found people
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.
adjusting fixed life next period player rugby
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.
adjustment motor period repetition stop time work
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.