Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.
I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.
Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.
In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.
I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.
I still get a great buzz from rugby.
Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.
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