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Sir Clive Woodward

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first: 2010-02-21
most recent: 2010-02-21
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“I think the last track Take That Greatest Day because, you know, I think life is all about today. Don't get bogged down with the past and also don't look too far in the future because you may miss what's happening today and that's what it's all about.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It would be a sand wedge and one ball So that would just keep me totally focused and set targets and all that stuff you spoke about in terms of making sure I stay competitive and stayed fit. I'd be as happy as I could be.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Six at the moment I'd love to get much better if I could just play more time. It's just a great, great game. And this would also give me time to redo that.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My book, it's a by a guy called Dave Pelts, and the short game in golf. So that would be the book I'd take because golf's the one game I probably wrongly still think I can play quite well.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've always pride myself on looking forward and I've had a fantastic life. I feel very, very lucky with Jane and my family. This again is the track that I just think is all about today. If it all ended this afternoon for me, heaven forbid I'd have absolutely no regrets. This track especially is just a great song by Fantastic Group. And this is what it's all about. It's about the next part of your life and the next few hours almost. And I just love this record.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, one of my biggest pleasures is we've got two fantastic dogs called Sally and Sid. So to walk those two dogs with Jane, we live in a lovely part of the world in Cook and we can walk down by the river. Just to walk those and walk down to the pub, there's a pub down by the river we go to. That is really my unwinding place. And I can walk for hours with those two dogs and Jay and it's just a great time where I just calm down.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like everything, you can't change what you can't change. So if that's where I was, I'd have to just sit down and reflect on it and say, right, I've got to make the best of this and get on with it. But also thinking that I will be off this island at some stage and I was going to come off in a better shape than I'm on it.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is back to rugby. This is to me just reminds me really of just all the great players that I had playing with us. And we used to have music on the bus going to the game. This would be the second last track before we got off the bus. You know, I can look around the bus now and see some players sitting really focused. You see Lawrence Delalio in the middle of the aisle dancing to this. Lawrence is an awesome dancer. He's a brilliant guy all around. The music, you know, this just resonates with...”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I just think my one of my strengths is I'm always I never look back. That was a moment I'm incredibly proud of, made some fantastic friends through it. It was a great period of our life. But you move on. My career has just sort of happened. So no, I am loving what I'm doing and 2012 is going to be big. I'm just very lucky to be part of it. Whatever happens in the future, happen the future. But no, I think winning the World Cup was certainly not the kind of, I like to think I wouldn't get up tomorrow if I thought that was never going to get anywhere near that again. That was a great, great moment. But you've got to move on. And I've always been pride of myself on being able to do that.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's not my aim. I think there are those figures around. I'm based very straightforward as sport and targets. If all these athletes at Olympic Games and everyone does their personal best really on that day, that one moment, you know, that one shot, that one opportunity, if they deliver the medal table will take care of itself. And I'm very, very confident that we've got the talent, the coaching talent, the knowledge now to have a fantastic 2012.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not kind of intimidated, but also it's just one removed. I mean, the actual performance of the team is very much led by the national governing bodies and all the various coaches. The Bridge Olympic Association take the teams of the games. So I kind of oversee the performance side of that. And we were doing some really creative stuff in terms of coaching and coach development. But you're one removed from coaching.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, again, we couldn't tell anybody because they're at school, we weren't about to say we were coming out to the World Cup or the World Cup final because we could have lost in the quarterfinals to Wales, which we nearly did. But they both knew that if we got to the final, they were going to be leaving school that afternoon and on the plane. So you can imagine those two, once they saw we'd beaten France the semifinals, they both got on the plane, got themselves out there. The upsides of what I do and what their dad does far outweighs the downsides. And as Jess would always say to me, how many kids have Johnny Wilkinson come for tea?”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yet she had opened it, she'd read it. Of course she'd young with everything of mine. So the honor was absolutely mind-blowing. It could never even dreamt about it. You know, again, back to the family, because their dad had been through a lot. It's sometimes not the easiest thing being gets married to me and kids of mine. But, you know, it was just a great acknowledgement for the whole family, which I was very proud to accept.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is really my Australia song. As you said, I had five fantastic years in Australia. We went in 1985. Jess and Joe were both born in Australia. And again, just wonderful memories of a brilliant five years of my life and a wonderful country with Jane.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love rugby on the board at Leicester. I'm still very passionate at the game. You kind of follow the game. Whether I do the same on hindsight again now, I'm not so sure. But the time, it seemed very, very clear, but I just didn't feel they were listening to me. But your blood's still got rugby in it. I think it'd be a lot easier for me if England had gone on to great heights and won the World Cup again and got the number one rang. You kind of look at it and you just, and especially when you see the team that we could have and you see players who can't play because they're injured because they're being overplayed at clubs, you cannot play the amount of rugby that they're playing at the moment and think the international team is going to tap up and beat New Zealand South Africa. It's just not going to happen. At the moment the players still, our top players are just playing far too much and the team that seems to suffer still is England team and just was trying to fix that and didn't do a very, very good job in my negotiation.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The moment you'd not got that mindset, you're going to come second. So I was happy to take a week, a couple of weeks off, and then I wanted to get back into it.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it wasn't the case. It wasn't after appreciation. I just absolutely realised post, post World Cup, we had to now take the whole organization to another level, say this is what we're going to do now because the rest of the world, I promise you, is not happy that England's won the World Cup. You know, we may be celebrating, but they're not. So whilst we're celebrating, they're all now planning, doubling their efforts. And I want to make some radical, and there were radical changes, but that's what I thought had to be made for England to maintain our position. And they just didn't want to listen to me.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We got in the car. Big thing, you know, the World Cup winning coach, I decided to leave, and this was a big press conference, and I got it badly wrong. I regret it now.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was sitting about twenty yards in front of me, and I could just see her face going whiter and whiter. I've done hundreds and hundreds of press conferences, and that was the only one where I think I got it badly, badly wrong, and that was totally against her advice. And she's just looking there, I could just see her horrified in what I was doing.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, I just really went and went into them in terms of why I was leaving. And that wasn't the time to do that. Because without Francis Barring, Graham Catwan, the rugby football union, I wouldn't have achieved anything I've ever done. And they'd supported me brilliantly. And the players especially, I decided to design. It wasn't the time for cheap shots or to kind of make points. It was the time to shake hands and move on.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, just everything. She's kind of the calming influence and her favourite word is just always high ground. Just take the high ground. Don't get involved. Probably the one time I didn't take her advice, which I regret, is when I actually left the England job, I resigned for various reasons. And the final press conference, which she kind of briefed me on and said, this is the moment to thank everybody. We've been incredibly lucky. You resigning. They're not getting rid of you. They don't want you to go. And that was what I decided to do, going to the press conference. And after that lasted about 30 seconds, and something was said in the press conference by somebody else, and then I just absolutely just tore into them.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It has been very supportive. I mean, she's an incredibly bright girl. She's a hundred times cleverer than I am, and just the advice she's given me on the way, I'd say 95% of the time I've taken it and the 5% time I haven't. I've fully regretted it.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We first met at University. They're mad in love with us. Delam, very lucky, thirty years later. We're still close as we've ever been. So just we're very, very lucky. Simple as”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next one, this again was a particularly happy time of my life. This is sort of really the Leicester years, but also moving down to Australia, meeting Jane. Again, it just always brings a smile to my face when I hear this track.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're getting paid to do it, and you've got no excuses, and that's all you want as special sportsman. You've got every chance of being successful here.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Forget it. It was a fantastic moment, and they went on the lion's tour back of that, and you just say, well, hang on. This is serious stuff we're playing for here. And also, you've only got this one moment in your life you're playing, and you want to win. You don't want to look back and say, well, I played Bringland and played 20 times and lost 15 because we just didn't prepare properly. I realized this was your short window of my life. I wanted to be on a winning team. But I look back on my England playing career with a certain amount of regrets because we just didn't want to take the world on. You know, one of my own goals was I was just determined that no player who was playing under me would ever kind of look back or write a book and say, well, we didn't do this or we should have done that or we didn't throw the kitchen sink at it. And that was all based on my own experiences. And that's what, again, drives you on to make sure you deliver for the team, to make sure they've got every chance of winning. Seeing the players now and then seeing what we did, especially with England, you just go, wow, I'd have loved to have done that. The players thought it was tough. I just thought you're the luckiest people in the world because you're doing something you love.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your teammates or to yourself? No, I was new in the team. I was 24. I just come into the team. We had a very experienced team. I was extremely, my first four games, we won the Grand Slam, including beating your team up in Scotland in 1988. So I kind of started off in the England rugby scene with a...”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really amateur in the worst sort of way. It was just so hit to miss. So you're coming from this incredibly driven corporate environment, which is all about winning and results, league tables. Then the England scene was just so amateur. So there you are playing in front of 75,000 people at Twickenham against Wales and Scotland and all at stake. And I wanted to win. And I have to say, I didn't get the impression it was all about that.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I went to Loughborough University and then after Luffbridge, I get Luff was just a fantastic four years of my life. It was just brilliant. But I was playing rugby now to a high level. And that was amateur. It was moving into, say, professionalism. There was big crowds following rugby in the international scene. When I left Loughborough, Leicester wanted me to play for them, but I joined Xerox, which was an American photocopy company. Xerox were brilliant because their training, certainly in those days, was some of the leading training you could do in sales and management and leadership. And so I'm working for this incredibly professional, hard-working, driven company in terms of results and targets. And I loved it. I absolutely thrived on it. And then you're in the rugby world. Lester was brilliant because we had an outstanding coach in chalky white, another outstanding coach in Loughbridge and Jim Greenwood. So I had these two great coaches. Then playing for England, it just seemed so amazing.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This next one was the start of probably me starting to try to prove people wrong because I was very independent at school, having to look after myself, having to just get through this. And I got on with it and started to play rugby and became very, very good at rugby and that became a passion. This is a song that reminds me when I first left school. I managed to get a job in London with a bank, I was 18 in London, absolutely out there. Join Harlequin's Rugby Club, which again was fantastic because I was playing some good rugby. And just really this was right. This was the start of, right, I am going to do something with my life. And it's just a great track.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think there's a lot in this. There's no doubt people have gone to try and find out where does talent come from and I think the environment you come from as a huge bearing. There's usually someone on the way who said, well, you're not going to be successful. You're not going to do this.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I've got an older sister, Linda, and a younger brother, Colin. Again, we're quite spread out. Linda's seven, eight years older than me, and my brother's seven, eight years younger than me. I'm not sure the exact figure. So again, we're close, but we're not as close as probably a lot of brothers and sisters, mainly because we're spread out with age, but more because we just got fractured with me going away to school. And I think to go back to your initial question, then what I'm so pleased about with my children now, they're very, very friendly, they're very close to each other, Jess, Joe, Freddie, they're mates, which I've always wanted. But I've been very lucky. They've all gone to the same schools growing up. They've got great friends at home. You know, you're just very pleased and proud of that. And you just hope they're happy.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I was always close to my dad even after that, but I just became so independent and I was probably quite difficult to put it mildly because I just became so independent.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This song just reminds me of holiday times and having great times with three great kids. So this is a song wherever it comes on the radio, just blast it away and it's just always warm feelings about holidays and kids and just a great song. Again, they're like Bobbed in and I love Ron Keats.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“66, yeah. Remember it now? I can name the team. I can remember every moment of the game. I was just football nuts, and I'm obviously was good at sport and that was the sport I wanted to play”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was very close to my dad. To be clear, I love my dad to bits. My parents have passed away. I was very, very close to him. but he had to make this decision and I can remember it clearly I wasn't the best pupil to put it mildly because I just didn't want to do any studies wanted to be out playing games and football and that's what I was going to do”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was taken away from the local school and sent off to a boarding school at the age of thirteen. It was a tough school. It's funny because I still speak to some people from the school and some people I love the school thought it was just fantastic, it was the making of them. Didn't do me any harm apart from sort of toughen me up, I guess, but also it just made me a little bit more distant from my parents, which I kind of regret. But when you go away like that, you just suddenly became, I just became so independent, even at 13, 14, I just I was just going to do everything on my own from that moment on.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, quite simply, all I did was play football and was quite good. And it was a conversation that took place between the headmaster and my father basically saying, look, your child is certainly very, very bright in terms of O-levels, A-levels, university, but he's just going nowhere because all you want to do is play football. And because my dad was in the services, he had the option to send me away to school for no charge.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You just don't really like it and you're not given very long because it was pulling the first two or three weeks. So, you know, got back on the train, went back again. Got on with it. I can see now why my parents sent me the school, but it was.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And we had even then had a naval uniform, so even at thirteen I was dressed in a midshipman's uniform. So, if you're bad aside the road in a midshipman's uniform, you've got lips very easily.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got home, got home twice, yeah, which is a long way because it was Anglesey to Linton A News in Yorkshire then. It was a hitchh”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One I was kind of missing home, but two, I just didn't like the school. I'd arrived there, I'd have a huge passion for football and they just played rugby and just didn't like the school.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“a naval boarding school on Anglestone, North Wales called HMS Conway. I went down when I was 13, I was there till I was 18, so it was five years of my life. And as you can imagine, a naval boarding school was a pretty tough environment.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It wasn't rough, it was just my kind of school days, which were kind of a tough time, which I'm pretty pleased I came through strongly”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The second disc is very much going back to early days and this is all about a pretty tough time in my life but sort of a time that I'm quite proud of because I came through it strongly. It's one of my favourite tracks and I love Bob Dyl”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, because I mean, it was five or four o'clock in the morning or something. We just couldn't envisage what was happening. So we walked out one by one and I remember walking out. We were Jane, my wife, and we'd just go, my goodness. I kept saying to me, what on earth are you doing here? It's four o'clock in the morning, whatever time it was. I saw so many friends from my local village who had just driven down there, but there were, I think, 10,000 people. And it was quite extraordinary.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was thinking a lot because you could see the players celebrating, and the one player who got himself back in position correctly was Martin Johnson. And it was a whole team. Because the Australians had one more kickoff. If they'd won the kickoff and won the ball, all they could have scored a try and everyone was out of position. But can you imagine if we'd lost that restart where we hadn't actually reacted that well after Johnny's drop goal because we were out of position”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And no one loves Johnny Wilkinson more than me, but he had missed three drop goals at this point. If he'd done his job probably before that, we probably wouldn't have to go for his drama. He was still quite a long way out. This wasn't an easy drop goal. Also, it was on his wrong foot. So we hit it, in my opinion, just a little bit early, but the rest is history.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's funny because I was on the side set. I was still saying go further because the referee can't blow his whistle in rugby until the team goes dead. And the whole idea is to just drive the ball right under the post so you can't miss.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The move would stop. They get a penalty. They kick to our half. We can lose the World Cup. So that was the ultimate minute for me of the team. And everybody delivered it absolutely correctly.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source