Sonny Bill Williams Quotes

Sonny Bill Williams

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 3, 1985

In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys.

Sonny Bill Williams

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.

Sonny Bill Williams

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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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.

Sonny Bill Williams

It was a fairly normal happy upbringing. Not a lot of money, but a lot of love.

Sonny Bill Williams

I grew up as a Polynesian kid in the Polynesian community, and I was this skinny white kid.

Sonny Bill Williams

I didn't feel that I really fit in anywhere. So when I was young I always had to prove myself through my sporting ability.

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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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I think I'm evolving, I'm always in search of bettering myself, how I can improve as a sportsman and as a person.

Sonny Bill Williams

I do speak my mind a lot more than when I was younger. I guess that's just my Polynesian background. That's how we are: just sit back and try and fit in, try and make everyone else happy.

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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.

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What's the worst that can happen? I get knocked out. At least I tried.

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It doesn't matter what you look like. Experience is the key.

Sonny Bill Williams

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.

Sonny Bill Williams

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 want to push myself.

Sonny Bill Williams

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

Sonny Bill Williams

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

Sonny Bill Williams

It's pretty tough to play some good footy when your team is always losing.

Sonny Bill Williams

It's not an easy gig, being in the NRL sometimes: you always feel for the boys because you have that mutual respect knowing what they go through.

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