O’Driscoll draws strength from the guru of positive thinking
On the eve of this season's Heineken Cup Final clash with Leicester and with another Lions tour looming, Owen Slot of The Times catches up with Leinster and Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll.
"Given the heap of honours that Brian O’Driscoll may win at this season’s end, it seems strange to relate that, at its start, he went out of his way, for the first time in his career, in search of help from a sports psychologist. O’Driscoll is a straightforward guy and likes to tell you so. “I am not Jonny,” he said, in reference to Jonny Wilkinson, his former Lions team-mate in the No 10 shirt. “I don’t overanalyse.”
"He will also tell you that he is “very sceptical” of sports psychologists and that he has “come across a fair few cowboys in my time”. But he does not mind explaining that, in the autumn, after the most average season of his career, “I felt I needed something to kick-start my game again, to just get me back thinking positively and reinforce something that somewhere inside me I knew about myself. I didn’t want another season to just go by the wayside.”"
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