The MasterCard ambassador and rugby legend knows what it’s like to stand in a dressing room and deliver the kind of rousing speech that’s needed to send a team into battle on the rugby field.
Sometimes it involves some tough love to get the juices flowing. At other times it involves encouragement, praise and a reminder of what is really at stake to get the best out of a team.
Not everyone knows that feeling.
Not everyone knows what it’s like to hear a spine-tingling speech and feel the emotion rise inside you as you look to your team-mates and know that you will do whatever it takes to support them and guide the team to victory.
As the rest world turns oval for the Rugby World Cup 2015, Wood gives us a sneak peak at what a rousing dressing-room speech in the final minutes before battle is really like.
And like all the great speeches, Keith saves the best twist until last.
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