Brian O'Driscoll quotes

The victory is always sweeter... winning things with friends.
- Brian O'Driscoll

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
- Brian O'Driscoll

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

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.
- Brian O'Driscoll

Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.
- Brian O'Driscoll

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

The victory is always sweeter... winning things with friends. Brian O'Driscoll There's ego in all of us rugby players.
- Brian O'Driscoll

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.
- Brian O'Driscoll

My missus knows to leave me alone. Brian O'Driscoll Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.
- Brian O'Driscoll

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.
- Brian O'Driscoll

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 I enjoy training so much, sometimes I don't want it to stop.
- Brian O'Driscoll

The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.
- Brian O'Driscoll

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.
- Brian O'Driscoll

You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.
- Brian O'Driscoll

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.
- Brian O'Driscoll

Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.
- Brian O'Driscoll

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.
- Brian O'Driscoll

Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.
- Brian O'Driscoll

For me, it took five years to understand what professionalism meant. But I'm more settled now. I'm married, life changes, and I've been lucky in managing my injuries.
- Brian O'Driscoll

I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.
- Brian O'Driscoll

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