Brian O'Driscoll famous quotes

I think training and being dedicated is very important, but one aspect that I always live by is that I enjoy myself in what I do!
-- Brian O'Driscoll

#Thinking #Training #Important

It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time.
-- Brian O'Driscoll

#Games #Want #Lasts

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.
-- Brian O'Driscoll

#Sweet #Good Day #Celebrate

I love going out every day and training and being part of the team, and having friendships built up over a number of years. It's those aspects of sport that I feel are really important.
-- Brian O'Driscoll

#Sports #Team #Years

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

#Retirement #Thinking #Six Months

Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.
-- Brian O'Driscoll

#Summer #Disappointment #Careers

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969.

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?