Ryan Baird on working with Paul O'Connell and his summer trip to Wimbledon.
SITTING IN FRONT of a small group of media in Abbotstown, Ryan Baird stops himself mid-answer, and apologises. The Leinster and Ireland forward is fresh from a 10-minute dip in the ice baths and is still feeling the effects, shivering through the early parts of a conversation which veers off course on a couple of occasions.
Tennis was a popular sport in the Baird house. He used to pick up a racket but wasn’t quite at the same level of his two brothers. At 12 he went to Wimbledon for the first time. Earlier this summer, he finally made it back to SW19. “So he wins in five sets and the atmosphere was just incredible. Afterwards he was saying ‘the crowd were incredible, it was electric’ and we got a photo with him. It was a real memory for us. We were texting him on Instagram after saying ‘Awesome work, so delighted for you!’ and he was like ‘Thanks, roll on the next round!’ It was a really cool day.”
The first day he came in I was just blowing out, it was incredible. His attention to detail, his passion for it, it’s just incredible. I love it so much. “I pick his brain about anything and he’ll have a video of it somewhere on his laptop. It’s impressive looking at all the folders he has. I love working with him.”
There’s probably someone in the building here who is better than you at pretty much everything, you’ll have your one or two super strengths – you don’t want too many of those – and then you see someone else’s and you pick on them and pick on someone else. “That’s when you get the best results, when everyone is sharing and it’s collaborative, because everyone has their point of difference and you’re trying to learn from each and every person.
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