“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.”

—  Sonny Bill Williams

Sonny Bill shares his tale for Pasifika youth http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11627340, by Vaimoana Tapaleao, New Zealand Herald, dated 23 April 2016.

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