Quotes by Sonny Bill Williams - Page 2

OK, I floss, I brush my teeth, and I use mouth wash. Does that mean that I love it? That means that I, you know, like to look after my teeth!
Sonny Bill Williams /
Teeth
Brush
Mouth
Wash
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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 /
Blessed
Rocket
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You always have your knockers. There's always something wrong. But I'm happy. I think that I'm improving as a fighter; that's all I can ask for.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Improving
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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.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Gig
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I'm not going to sit here and be stupid. If someone comes and offers me double what I'm on, of course I'm going to sit down and seriously look at it.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Offers
Stupid Me Look
Double
Stupid Look Me
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One of my major goals off the field is to conduct myself in a way that... parents are proud to say, 'Oh yeah, look, he wants to be like Sonny Bill Williams.'
Sonny Bill Williams /
Myself Look Goals
Oh Yeah
Sonny
Williams
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If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?
Sonny Bill Williams /
Teacher
Bus
Bus Driver
Lawyer
Somewhere Else
Somewhere
Driver
Offered
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As soon as I signed for the French rugby union, it was just a huge relief, you know, because I was out of Sydney and out of sight doing what was best for myself.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Relief
Rugby
Sight
Sydney
Best Myself Doing
Union
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A young fella snuck out on to the field somehow, but when he was coming up to give me a hug, he got smoked by the guard. He was lucky the guy didn't break his ribs.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Give Me
Hug
Ribs
Fella
Guard
Smoked
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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?
Sonny Bill Williams /
Aspire
Grows
I Am Me People
Ring
Hop
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To be an Olympian - not many people can say that. But first of all, I've got to make the team, and I know a lot of hard work is going to go into it, so hopefully it pays off.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Hard Work
Olympian
Work People Know
Work Hard Work People
First Of All
Pays
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I think the reason I hadn't fought was just the aftermath of the Botha fight. You put so much into a fight, and people just talk about it like it was a bit of a farce or something.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Aftermath
Farce
Fought
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For myself, it's trying to do my best in whatever I am doing. At this time, it is boxing; then when I get home, I want to be the best father, the best husband, the best man I can be.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Boxing
Husband
Time Best Home
Best Man
Best Time Home
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As a league player, for myself, you strive to win a comp. I'm lucky enough to have achieved that... but most sportspeople would love to go to the Olympics, and I haven't achieved that.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Olympics
Strive
Love Myself Enough
Achieved
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When I first went to rugby, I wanted it all; I just wanted it all, and you know, I thought it was just going to happen just like that, but I've come to learn that good things take time.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Good Things
Rugby
Wanted
Time Good Know
Happen
Learn
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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.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Everyone Else
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I'm a lot more comfortable in the ring. I'm comfortable catching punches, and defensively, I feel like I've improved a lot. I am banking on my athleticism. I've worked hard on my footwork.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Banking
Catching
Footwork
I Am Feel More
Ring
Defensively
Improved
Punches
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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 /
Mum
Sisters
Commissioned
Lounge
Mount
Slept
Suburb
Wallpaper
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I rock up to training, and Folkesy, Steve Folkes - someone that, to be honest, has never paid any interest in my personal life - he comes up to me and starts saying, 'You're not turning Muslim are you?'
Sonny Bill Williams /
Personal Life
Turning
Steve
To Be Honest
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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 /
Human Beings
Lucky
Mindset
Problem
Touch
Beings
Forced
Homes
Refugees
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Although the rugby league fraternity probably don't like it, the rugby union fraternity probably doesn't like it, it's cool for sportsmen, for young kids coming up, to know that there's not just that one door.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Fraternity
Rugby
Union
Sportsmen
Young Kids
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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 /
Confidence
Tough
Coming
Eventually
Full-Time
Pick
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I have learned from my mistakes... the business we are in is cutthroat. I have seen too many older blokes give their all for clubs, then be told they are not wanted. Even blokes still on contract are told to look elsewhere.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Clubs
Elsewhere
Contract
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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 /
Coaches
Earning
No Reason
Biggest Thing
Fellow
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Just like in rugby, the pinnacle was playing for the All Blacks. That was always a massive thing. But you never speak it outwardly because it can sound stupid. But if you don't have massive dreams, you might as well stay in bed.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Bed
Massive
Pinnacle
Rugby
Sound
Stupid
Blacks
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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 /
Mates
Sydney
Twice
Full-Time
Labourer
Professionally
Twice A Week
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Beforehand you think, 'Oh, changing nappies - I'm going to be up; I need to get sleep for training.' But when it happens, when you're there, as soon as you hear a wiggle or a cough or something, you're up straight away. It doesn't bother you.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Bother
Beforehand
Cough
Wiggle
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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 /
Clubs
Crowds
David
Gallop
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