99 Quotes by Brian O'Driscoll

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

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.

I'm fairly adventurous with my eating. I've tried kangaroo, and Moreton Bay bugs, which are a kind of lobster, are so good.

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.

I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.