Top 87 Quotes by Brian O'Driscoll

Just because you lost your last game doesn't mean you change anything.

If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.

I'm very much a glass-half-full person.

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

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.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.

I didn't know Ian Smith myself!

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.

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.