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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.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Family
#Point Of View
#Point
#Talk
#View
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.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Best
#Big
#Decide
#Need
#Understand
My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Bad
#Enough
#Good
#Knowledge
#Where
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.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Always
#Background
#More
#Public
#Things
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.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#About
#End
#Just
#Love
#Never
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.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Forever
#Hurt
#Myself
#Stay
#Yourself
When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Captain
#Never
#Speaking
#You
#Yourself
You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Best
#Disappointment
#Life
#Perspective
There is no point winning the semi if you don't win the final. It's as simple as that. No one will remember a big semifinal if you lose the final, so you have to do it all again.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Lose
#Remember
#Simple
#Win
#Winning
The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Going
#Gym
#Pretty
#Strong
#Without
I'm an eternal optimist.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Eternal
#Optimist
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.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Against
#Good
#Name
#See
#Straight
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.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Answer
#Believe
#Looking
#Situation
If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Enough
#Light
#Long
#Positive
#Right
The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Great
#Lose
#Pain
#Together
#Win
The victory is always sweeter... winning things with friends.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Always
#Friends
#Victory
#Winning
You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Because
#Celebrate
#Days
#Good
#Sweet
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.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Back
#Confidence
#Me
#Myself
#Shy
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
- Brian O'Driscoll
#Fruit
#Knowing
#Knowledge
#Salad
#Tomato
#Wisdom
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