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Lions forwards coach Warren Gatland has pledged not to play mind games that may motivate South Africa during the tour.
Wales coach Gatland caused controversy in the Six Nations by speaking of his players' dislike of their Irish rivals.
That drew a pointed post-Grand Slam triumph rebuke from Ireland and Lions skipper Paul O'Connell.
"I want to keep my mouth shut. I've had a couple of lessons... I'm hopefully going to be very, very boring [on the Lions tour]," Gatland told the BBC.
"I think that's a part of sport sometimes when you see if you can get a reaction from someone and you can take their minds off things.
"But I think it's important for this tour that I keep my mouth shut and keep the grenades out of my pocket and not throw any."
He added: "You've got to be very careful what you say sometimes because you can upset people, but you don't want to also motivate them too much."
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Instead Gatland intends to limit mind games to keeping South Africa guessing as to how the tourists will approach the three-Test series.
Gatland said: "We've got to keep a couple of things up our sleeve and not show everything.
"That's going to be important when we do hit that Test series; that we haven't been over-analysed by the South Africans and we can show something new in the Test series.
"This first few games is about keeping things pretty simple, trying to get on the front foot, making sure we're good at set piece, scrum and line-outs, defend well and hopefully we can play some positive rugby and score some good tries."
Gatland also hopes the Lions can draw comfort and even confidence from Wales' three defeats to the Springboks in the last 12 months.
"From the Welsh point of view, we've played South Africa three times in the last year and, I think, improved on each occasion," he insisted.
"So the players that have had that opportunity… have built up some self-belief and confidence so they know that if they can play well for 80 minutes, be accurate, put South Africa under pressure, then they've got a good chance of winning."
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Talking to some players who have been on Lions tours in the past, the comments are coming back from them just how well the guys have gelled together
Warren Gatland
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Gatland says the management have been delighted at the speed and manner in which the Lions squad have gelled, citing Ireland's Donncha O'Callaghan's view that after only three days together they were like a club squad.
"It's been very positive in the first couple of weeks and the players have picked things up a lot quicker than we initially expected.
"Talking to some players who have been on Lions' tours in the past, the comments are coming back from them just how well the guys have gelled together.
"Donncha O'Callaghan was saying after only two or three days it felt like a club side.
"So from a coaching point of view that's incredibly positive because when it gets very tough and tight in those games you want guys being able to count on each other."
He also says James Hook's reaction to joining the Lions party as a late stand-in for fellow countryman Leigh Halfpenny (thigh) underlined the special nature of being a Lion.
"I've seen the disappointment on a few faces of guys that have got injured and have had to miss out," said Gatland.
"I spoke to James Hook the other day about coming in and I couldn't believe how nervous he was coming into the squad."
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