Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

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
Sonny Bill Williams

Sometimes they are big hurdles, but good players can overcome them. I am trying to do my best.

Sonny Bill Williams
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.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

Boxing's not in my blood... it just grew on me.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

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

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

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.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

I am my own man now; I can think for myself, whereas when I was 20, 21, I always wanted to please others.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

I was never going to be a rocket scientist. But I found the field that I was blessed to be able to do, and I just put my whole effort into that.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

Seeing my daughter for the first time after I came back from the tour was just a life-changing experience... it still blows my mind.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

I wouldn't say I am a businessman.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

My biggest challenge for myself is to be the best father I can be and be the best husband I can be.

Sonny Bill Williams
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.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

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.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

Going back in time, the best sportsmen ever have been Olympians.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

I've had an amazing ride. I've been blessed beyond things that I could never have imagined.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

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

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

I just don't want to fail, to be honest.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

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.

Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams

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?