When they first handed me my helmet and pads, I jokingly asked, `Do I have to wear these?` ... Without being up close to the game ? television is so far away ? is that you don`t appreciate how physically fast and tough and strong and how much more they ca...
The crowd loved it when I kicked the ball long all the time, so every opportunity I got I would do it, ... I had a deal with the coach that when we were a certain amount up in the game late in the quarter, and I had the opportunity, I`d let it fly.
It was something I intended on doing down the track, ... Now, if I had been a player in Australia who wasn`t having a great career or was at the crossroads, I would have probably jumped at it when I was 25 or 26. But my career went the way that I would ha...