The pleasing thing is being able to be in an environment where, even though I'm a rookie, everyone wants to help you out.
From Sonny Bill Williams
My mindset at this stage, especially after having a daughter... it's just changed my whole outlook.
One thing I've learned over my career is that simplicity is the key: on the field, off as well.
We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to feel that refugees are a problem, but it's more than that. They're human beings, too. They were forced from their homes.
My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.
When I first went to rugby, I wanted it all; I just wanted it all, and you know, I thought it was just going to happen just like that, but I've come to learn that good things take time.
To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an amazing feeling.
I don't need a pool room with medals and everything hanging up.
You can't have eyes on the wall, or the angels won't come in. That's what we believe.
I grew up in a commissioned house in the next suburb over, Mount Abbot. It was a two-bedroom house with me, my brother, and my two sisters. Mum and Dad slept in the lounge, and we didn't have wallpaper.
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