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Sir Clive Woodward

lines on the record: 61
first: 2010-02-21
most recent: 2010-02-21
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Again, I just admire the place. I was extremely lucky. We had wonderful players. They were able to really think correctly under pressure. So you've got a situation where we've got a minute to go. I'm now down on the pitch side. And yeah, Johnny Wilkinson is the ultimate hero for getting the drop goal. But in my position, when you're seeing what everybody did right down from Ben K making the correct lineout call, Steve Thompson turned the ball into the line out. Lewis Moody catching it. And then we had this move, we just call it zigzag, and it's all about trying to get a drop goal and you're just trying to punch left, punch right. And you see every player because it just needs one player to not think, to hit a rock at the wrong angle, get where penalty. And suddenly we...”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You mustn't go over the line in terms of emotion because it's a thinking man's game. Twenty minutes out you look around the changing room and it's absolutely difficult to describe, but it's the most inspirational place even as a coach because he'd love to be a player. He's great coaching, but it's nothing like playing. And it's very quiet funny enough. And you can see him just looking at each other and they just get themselves mentally prepared”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I believe these guys are gladiators. I mean, they're absolutely heroes. I mean, we put a lot of stool on one-on-one battles, you know, what I used to do in the team room on the Friday night, write our team up and their team up and just pair everyone off. And, you know, you've got prop against prop, hooker against hook up, back row against back row. If you win your own personal battle, the chances are we're going to win.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In certain circumstances there are I thought at this moment I was going to put them under absolutely massive pressure. And we put this video together. This is about one shot, one opportunity. And in a way, that's what professional sports all about. You normally do just get one little moment in your life where you're either going to do it or not do it. And it's been able to do it under pressure. And I just wanted to put them under maximum pressure because this was all part of preparing for about six months' time the World Cup final.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is one that immediately brings tingles my whole body. We used to have a Friday night meeting before every test match, and we used to create a video to music. And this was the song that we played before we were playing Ireland for the Grand Slam in 2003. You know, I was very, very cliff. We could win the game tomorrow, which is a massive game because England were playing away to Ireland. We were going for the Grand Slam. Ireland were also going for a grand slam. This was a huge game. So a lot of coaches would maybe sit here and say, it's your job as a coach to take pressure off players.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You've been a wheel before. There's all sorts of things happen in professional sport. To me, it was something, if you're in the sport, you knew potentially could happen. You can't condone it. You made a massive error. The rugby will come through it”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, Dean Richards is the coach. They'd obviously thought about it. They'd planned it and that they just got it badly wrong. And I have to say, I think the punishment the Dean Richards was far in excess of actually he was definitely guilty of being stupid and naive and obviously regrets it bitterly. It wasn't the pressure of the situation, they were just breaking the rules knowingly to try and get a result.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I've spoken to Dean Richard since about it. We met at a Leicester dinner. I just think Dean got it badly wrong. I don't think it was the pressure of the situation that I was”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The player can come off when they wanted to put a kicker on, and there's a minute to go. And he came off, and there's just too much blood all over his face. And it didn't even stack up. I think...”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was actually watching on Telly, and if you're involved in the game, it was like a comic book situation. As soon as it happened, you knew what happened. You could see it because the situation, it was just too much of a coincidence.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think it's both Kirsty. I think at the top level it is the winning. But I think just below that there's a whole spectrum of sport that is about the taking part, especially with kids. It is the taking part. It is enjoyment and it is the old Corinthian spirit. But the higher up you get, even at a young age, once you get into your livelihood, it is winning that's everything. That's why we love it.”
2010-02-21 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Clive Woodward · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source