Every sport has helped me excel in another. Boxing has given me the mental strength to know that I can face anything on the field, without a doubt. - Sonny Bill Williams

I try not to read too much in the media because they're either gonna put you on a pedestal too high or underplay you.

I feel that if I am busting my arse, if I am stretching at night, if I am working hard in the gym, if I am doing all of my extras out on the field, if I am the first one there and the last to leave or whatever, and if I am giving my all every game, then I deserve to be the man I want to be rather than the man other people want me to be.

[Her birth] was the best moment of my life, by far, and it didn't do it justice watching it on Skype...When I saw my child for the first time it just switched the switch, you know. That's when you realise you love something more than you love yourself.