'Are you looking forward to it, Brian?' 'I don't even know what I'm supposed to do.' 'Get your hands on the ball, run fast and avoid being tackled. That's the secret.'

Brian O'Driscoll has been among the greatest rugby players in the world since making his international debut in 1999. He is the most capped Irish captain of all time, and in 2010 Rugby World magazine named him its world player of the decade. Now, as his glittering career nears its end, he tells his own story - from childhood in Clontarf and school at Blackrock College to unprecedented success for club and country and captaincy of the Lions.