Top 87 Quotes by Brian O'Driscoll

It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.

I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.

You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.

I'm very happy to have been a one-club man, but I wouldn't shoot down guys who have gone off and played in multiple clubs either because, essentially, it is an earning that people are after.

I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.

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.

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.

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.

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.