Brian O'Driscoll
Brian O'Driscoll
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth21 January 1979
CountryIreland
retirement thinking months
If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.
sports team years
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.
sweet good-day celebrate
You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.
games want lasts
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...
came coming goods great performance pressure produced shock
It was a performance that had been coming for a while and it does not shock me all that much. When the pressure came on we produced the goods and we can take great satisfaction from that.
across experience man won
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.
bigger celebrate crown feels nations needed performance six stepping stone talking triple week win
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.
bit gave quite relatively
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.
became
I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.
learnt second takes
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
family impartial interest point
When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.
australia goes great highlight less lions might sound strange time tour won
The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.
manchester supported
Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.
borrowing case gone jersey maximum played respect
I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.