Quotes by Jonah Lomu - Page 1

I was only operating at about 80% of my capacity.
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Capacity
Operating
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Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.
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Marketing
Bank
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It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
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Inspirational
Exciting
Rugby
Welsh
Exciting Time
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I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.
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Bad News
Dying
News
People
People Bad News
Bad News People
Whenever
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I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.
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Illness
World Cup
Diagnosed
Cup
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It annoys me when people who don't know what they're talking about boo the referee.
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Referee
Me People Know
Annoys
Boo
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I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.
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Wales
Blues
Shirt
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The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.
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Fields
Incredibles
Biggest
Biggest Thing
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I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.
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Taught
Tradition
Boarding
Boarding School
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I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid.
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Boots
Crooked
Toes
Afford
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I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.
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Best Me People
Fully
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It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
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Opportunity
Fitness
Health
Given
Long
Long Road
Most
Am
Back
Been
Road
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I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.
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Bottles
Calves
Hips
Mark
Bottle
Calf
Hip
Slash
Wound
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Each haka has its own interpretation, but you have to make sure you are in unison with your team-mates; the haka should be a proper war cry.
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War
Cry
Interpretation
Should
Unison
Sure
Own
Each
Proper
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For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.
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Energy
Giving Up
Looks
Periods
Life Look Me
Toughest
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Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.
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Doorstep
Looking Back
Rugby
Surreal
Life Looking Back Looking
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Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby, I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.
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Rugby
Surreal
Whole Life
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How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.
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Air
Feet
Little Bit
Moving
Teach
Again
Bit
Bring
Foot
Off
Walk
Lift
Step
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Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.
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Doctors
Possibility
Training
Doctor
Darkest
Towards
Wheelchair
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I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.
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Comeback
Goal
Important
Needs
Saturday
Ahead
Drive
Transplant
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When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.
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Bed
Next
Player
Recovery
Session
Tired
After
Stay
Period
Hour
Longer
Till
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It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.
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Choices
Realised
World
World Cup
Years
Barely
By The Time
Cup
Time Walk World
Finally
No Choice
Transplant
Year Later
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I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.
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Having Fun
Racing
Sick
Winning
Ended
Little Baby
Scoring
Tries
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It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.
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Home
Bottom
Curtains
Fall
First Time
Ordinary
Ordinary Days
Rowing
Bang
Falling
Suddenly
Turned
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