Brian odriscoll autobiography samples
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Brian O'Driscoll
Publisher:
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ISBN: 9781843588306
Release date: August 1, 2011
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ISBN: 9781843588306
File size: 2433 KB
Release date: August 1, 2011
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Considered calm: Brian O’Driscoll – The Test
The Test
Author:Brian O'Driscoll
ISBN-13:978-1844882915
Publisher:Penguin Ireland
Guideline Price:£20
They were days when a draw against France sparked a desperate hope. Who knew what might be possible if we could just find a backline that scored tries on a regular basis? I had recruited a large group from our sixth year class at Pres Cork to travel to Lansdowne Road for the opening game of the Five Nations against France on January 20th, 1979. The exact date is important, as will become apparent in a few paragraphs.
Two players stand out in memory: a back-row forward and racing blur of blond hair who captained France, Jean-Pierre Rives, and a Munster fly-half, already a legend, Tony Ward.
Ward kicked three penalties and the French scored a converted try and a penalty. To us watching schoolboys, Rives and Ward represented improbable dash and glamour, players above the ordinary. We tramped off home, honour satisfied with the draw.
A scraped win or a draw or glorious defeat were our ambitions back then. England, Wales and France strutted through the Five Nations while Scotland and ourselves were reduced to occasional sparkling cameos. To paraphrase WB Yeats, an Irish rugby follower needed to keep about hi
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The Test: My Autobiography
About this audiobook
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Test, the stunning autobiography from rugby legend Brian O'Driscoll, read by Aidan Kelly.
Between 1999, when he made his international debut, and his retirement in 2014, there was no greater player in world rugby than Brian O'Driscoll. In 2010 Rugby World magazine named him its world player of the decade - and since then the legend has only grown.
Along the way, he was tested - by personal loss, off-the-field pressures and career-threatening injuries. The Testis a book about how he took on those challenges - how a world-class talent developed a world-class work ethic and temperament. As he lost his youthful pace, O'Driscoll's reinvented himself as a player, revealing the remarkable character and drive behind the glittering gifts. In the latter years of his career, he put in a sequence of gladiatorial performances that etched themselves into the minds of every rugby fan every bit as indelibly as the legendary early tries in Paris and Brisbane.
Honest, gritty and thoughtful, The Test is not just an essential sports book. It is an essential book about family, friends, hard work, courage and imagination.