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.

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.

You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.

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.

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.

You want to win everything you are in.

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

I didn't know Ian Smith myself!

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

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.

Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.

I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

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.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

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

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.

I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.

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

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.

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

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

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

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.