Irish - Athlete | January 21, 1979 -
Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.
Brian O'Driscoll
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When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back.
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Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.
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I don't really want to be the centre of attention.
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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.
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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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I'm very much a glass-half-full person.
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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.
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You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.
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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.
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I'm an eternal optimist.
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If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.
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