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Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.

It's happened a couple of times in training when I hyper-extend my back. Some facet joints send all the muscles in my lower back and lumbar-spine into spasm.

Brian O'Driscoll

Rugby takes its toll.

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I didn't know Ian Smith myself!

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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.

Brian O'Driscoll

It feels great to be a two-time Six Nations winner.

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

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I've never bought a sports car.

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I would say I thrive in a competitive environment.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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There's ego in all of us rugby players.

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

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If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.

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The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.

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I don't really want to be the centre of attention.

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Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

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The victory is always sweeter... winning things with friends.

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I would always treat my attacking game as the more natural part. With defence, you have to get yourself in positions to understand the game and understand situations and that might not be as natural a thing.

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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.

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I need to worry about the things that I am in control of.

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

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I enjoy training so much, sometimes I don't want it to stop.

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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.

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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.

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I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson.

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One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

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I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.

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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.

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

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There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

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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

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

Brian O'Driscoll

Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.

Brian O'Driscoll