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" The pleasing thing is being able to be in an environment where, even though I'm a rookie, everyone wants to help you out. "
Sonny Bill Williams
Environment
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You
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" If we're going to be getting treated like that, why can't we treat the clubs like that? I just want to see the game and the players looked after the way they should be because the crowds don't turn up to watch David Gallop play... they turn up to watch the players play. "
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" As a league player, for myself, you strive to win a comp. I'm lucky enough to have achieved that... but most sportspeople would love to go to the Olympics, and I haven't achieved that. "
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" You always have your knockers. There's always something wrong. But I'm happy. I think that I'm improving as a fighter; that's all I can ask for. "
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" I've got to do everything extra to put myself in the best shape to get in the World Cup squad. "
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" My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling. "
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" OK, I floss, I brush my teeth, and I use mouth wash. Does that mean that I love it? That means that I, you know, like to look after my teeth! "
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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 don't need a pool room with medals and everything hanging up. "
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" 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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" It doesn't matter what you look like. Experience is the key. "
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" I've become a true Muslim. It's giving me happiness. It's made me become content as a man and helped me to grow. I've just got faith in it, and it has definitely helped me become the man I am today. "
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" One thing I've learned over my career is that simplicity is the key: on the field, off as well. "
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Off
" I want to push myself. "
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" After that first month in Sydney, I went home for two weeks. I didn't want to ever go back because it was so hard. "
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" To win competitions you need a bit of luck and some talent. I think we have some talent on our bus. "
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" If I could go back and change how I left the NRL, I would. My name will forever be tarnished but I wasn't the man I am now. "
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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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" That's the beautiful thing about being a father for the first time; it has really made me get my concentration levels in check. "
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Father
Beautiful
" I definitely want to play rugby at the top level, international rugby. "
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Rugby
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" I don't know if I'm going to be any good at sevens. "
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" In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys. "
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" A young fella snuck out on to the field somehow, but when he was coming up to give me a hug, he got smoked by the guard. He was lucky the guy didn't break his ribs. "
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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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