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I didn't feel that I really fit in anywhere. So when I was young I always had to prove myself through my sporting ability.
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.
I don't have the runs on the board to trash talk anyone in the boxing sense. I've got to do it the hard way and earn that respect.
I don't know if I'm going to be any good at sevens.
I don't need a pool room with medals and everything hanging up.
I don't want to let my family down; I don't want to let myself down. That's probably the biggest thing I fear.
I grew up as a Polynesian kid in the Polynesian community, and I was this skinny white kid.
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.
I guess I've always had a - not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the game.
I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.
I had to work on the fundamentals of the game because in league, the position I played, it was just bash and crash.
I have just fallen back in love with rugby league again.
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.
I just don't want to fail, to be honest.
I just used to bank on my athleticism.
I like the challenge, week in, week out, of trying to play good, consistent footy.
I love winning, and I love the challenge.
I really wanted to come into the Olympics.
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?'
I think I'm evolving, I'm always in search of bettering myself, how I can improve as a sportsman and as a person.
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Agnes Martin
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