If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it’s something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don’t sit at home and think about it too much, though – there’s plenty of other things in my life going on. Brian O'Driscoll Read Quote
Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in. Brian O'Driscoll Read Quote
I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards. Brian O'Driscoll Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you start thinking about retirement in six months’ time, you’re already there. Brian O'Driscoll Read Quote
I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment. Brian O'Driscoll Read Quote
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. Brian O'Driscoll Read Quote
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 Read Quote