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" I was never going to be a rocket scientist. But I found the field that I was blessed to be able to do, and I just put my whole effort into that. "

Sonny Bill Williams

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" Being a young Kiwi lad, a young Polynesian boy, I was pretty close to my family. But when I moved to Sydney, I went from training twice a week, playing touch footy with my mates, to working full-time as a labourer and training professionally. "

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" By the end of my first year at the Dogs, we'd won the competition, and I'd played some pretty good footy. "

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" I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up. "

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" I've got confidence that I'll be able to pick it up eventually, but that's the reason I'm a full-time Sevens player this year: because I knew coming into it that it would be really tough, and I've got to give it my all. "

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" How can I tell my daughter when she grows up to aspire to be what she wants to be if I am too scared to hop back in the ring because of what some people have said about me? "

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" I've had an amazing ride. I've been blessed beyond things that I could never have imagined. "

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" I really wanted to come into the Olympics. "

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" I don't know if I'm going to be any good at sevens. "

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" Every rugby player in Australia and New Zealand or wherever they are from wants to play in the World Cup, and I am no different. "

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" My old man never used to cook, so we lived on takeaway. The others were always jealous. "

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" You can't have eyes on the wall, or the angels won't come in. That's what we believe. "

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" 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. "

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" I just don't want to fail, to be honest. "

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" Although the rugby league fraternity probably don't like it, the rugby union fraternity probably doesn't like it, it's cool for sportsmen, for young kids coming up, to know that there's not just that one door. "

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" For myself, it's trying to do my best in whatever I am doing. At this time, it is boxing; then when I get home, I want to be the best father, the best husband, the best man I can be. "

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" There was no way I was going to end up in the scrum when I came to rugby - you know, waste my pretty looks. "

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" I thought that if I could play rugby on TV, I'd be able to get my mum a house. That was the driving factor. "

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" My mindset at this stage, especially after having a daughter... it's just changed my whole outlook. "

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" I would say I have become a lot smarter in the way I understand things. "

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