I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.
I'm very much a glass-half-full person.
I was quite small as a kid and maybe a little afraid physically. When I grew into myself, the realisation changed. That when you hurt yourself, it's transient; it doesn't stay forever.
I've always found when I was captain when other people were doing the talking for me, I didn't need to say as much, and when I did say one or two things, people tended to listen all the more.
I'm an eternal optimist.
As the summer moves on, there are Saturday nights when I come home and find friends I haven't even been out with sitting up in the hot tub.
There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.
