I wasn't picked for any of the sports teams at school because I was half the size of everyone else, but now everyone assumes I must have been some sort of rugby player.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.
Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.
I was an athlete when I was growing up.
As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.