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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. "

Sonny Bill Williams

Problem

Live

Lucky

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" I'm not going to sit here and be stupid. If someone comes and offers me double what I'm on, of course I'm going to sit down and seriously look at it. "

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" I just used to bank on my athleticism. "

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

" To win competitions you need a bit of luck and some talent. I think we have some talent on our bus. "

" 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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Young

Know

" That's the beautiful thing about being a father for the first time; it has really made me get my concentration levels in check. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

Sonny Bill Williams

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People

" To be part of something special, to be an Olympian and have the chance to win a medal - it's an amazing feeling. "

" Beforehand you think, 'Oh, changing nappies - I'm going to be up; I need to get sleep for training.' But when it happens, when you're there, as soon as you hear a wiggle or a cough or something, you're up straight away. It doesn't bother you. "

" 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. "

" I've got to do everything extra to put myself in the best shape to get in the World Cup squad. "

" Now, I know a lot of things in the big man's world are not what they seem: a lot of people are out for themselves, and you can't always trust what someone says. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I rock up to training, and Folkesy, Steve Folkes - someone that, to be honest, has never paid any interest in my personal life - he comes up to me and starts saying, 'You're not turning Muslim are you?' "

" The biggest thing for me is earning the respect of my fellow players and coaches. I think that is why I was a little bit emotional. You don't get a haka done to you from the brothers for no reason if they don't respect you. "

" I definitely want to play rugby at the top level, international rugby. "

" 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. "

" I want to push myself. "

" I think the reason I hadn't fought was just the aftermath of the Botha fight. You put so much into a fight, and people just talk about it like it was a bit of a farce or something. "

" I don't have the runs on the board to trash talk anyone in the boxing sense. I've got to do it the hard way and earn that respect. "

" 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! "

" I had to work on the fundamentals of the game because in league, the position I played, it was just bash and crash. "

" I like the challenge, week in, week out, of trying to play good, consistent footy. "

" 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. "