Beauden Barrett Quotes

Beauden Barrett

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 27, 1991

Time flies. It seems like just yesterday I was playing my first game against Ireland, when I came off the bench, full of energy and flying into tackles, even though I couldn't tackle back then.

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I live in Wellington now but I love going back to the farm where all you can hear are the cows or the sea crashing in about a kilometre away. Our uncle's farm is on the beach and we are one up from that towards the mountain.

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For some reason, the more the pressure comes on, the more enjoyable it gets.

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Every season is hard, every season has its ups and downs.

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Our mental skills expert Gilbert Enoka is just amazing the work he does.

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I just remember, it seemed to be the thing to do to get up a three o'clock in the morning and watch the All Blacks play England or South Africa.

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When you lose for the All Blacks it's not a nice feeling. Expectations on us are pretty high. We have high standards and we know if we've let ourselves or let the jersey down.

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A lot of the values I have come from the farm and from my parents, of grafting and of giving, and of always striving to be the best you can be. It's about teamwork.

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At 17 I was graduating and didn't know what to do. I was seriously contemplating going to Melbourne to play Aussie football.

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Whatever role the coaches decide for me and the team, I'm happy with that.

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I don't read anything. I don't read the press. I've always valued my supporters and my haters are supporters in disguise. That's just the way it is. I run a couple of social media accounts and you can't help but look at comments every now and then.

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I take a laid-back approach to a lot of things in life and, at the end of the day, rugby's just a game.

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I must say I'm a bit more daunted about changing a nappy than I am making a tackle... unless it's Ngani Laumape or Ben Lam.

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If you overthink things, you end up doing things without the right reasons in mind.

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We pride ourselves on preparing well and genuinely. It's quite easy to brush over the small details, your recovery, the little one percenters. There are so many little things that add up to the performance.

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Mum always encouraged us to run, she was very athletic.

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It certainly helped just having acres and acres of green grass, a back lawn where there's goal posts and plenty of siblings and cousins around to compete with and play against.

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I grew up on a farm playing backyard footie in my bare feet.

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I'm such a perfectionist and I want to do everything right, kick every goal, do everything perfectly, but that is not reality.

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I'm a Kiwi country boy, approachable, genuine, never getting too far ahead of myself, a straightforward kind of bloke.

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