Quotes by 'Brian O'Driscoll'

Brian O'Driscoll

good

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

along lots martin massive richard

I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson.

caps chase hard

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

hang interests outside

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

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.

appetite huge love means

I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it - it was just a means to an end.

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.

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.

fit generation older player rare

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

figure good knowledge leeway

My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.

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.

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.