Brian O'Driscoll Quotes

I'm interested in coaching.

I'm a fan of coaching.

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

Coaching the national team would be great.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

I could have coached better.

If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.

We could all use more coaching.

Coaching is what I love to do, and I think I'm pretty good at it.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

Of course when you are starting to be a coach you want to do your best and my national team is my dream.

I think all the players need coaching; if you do not push the player, they are going to be too comfortable. Always, you need to push.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.

I resigned from captaincy because I wanted the new captain to get enough time for preparing a team before the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

A coach coaches. That's what he does. That's what he's good at. He's not managing people. He manages his players, but that's different.