Jack Conan on self-criticism: ‘No one ever got better from not playing’

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Jack Conan on self-criticism: ‘No one ever got better from not playing’
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“It gives you confidence,” he says. “When you’re out there and getting an opportunity, whether you are making mistakes or not ... if you want to improve. You don’t last very long in an environment if you’re not quite critical of yourself and performance,” he says. “You always want to get better.

“Definitely, you always want to have an impact and maybe when I was younger, I thought having an impact was with ball in hand because that’s what came more naturally to me,” says the 32-year-old father. “As you get older you know you can have an impact in so many ways. Defensively, coming on against Scotland, we get that barge out on the touchline.

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