“If you remain grateful for where you are in the sport or wherever you are in life, then you can keep that hunger to keep going.”

“It’s about understanding your true north, where you want to get to and what you want to achieve in life. For a lot of young people, you don’t find that, it takes time to find what you want to do and what your calling is and that’s fine.”

"Being around negative people … sometimes you can become the negative person too. You really need to pick and choose your tribe and the people that you hang out with, people change and things change … it's okay to change things up."

"I think online there are so many different communities, whether they're negative or positive, and I think when it comes to leadership or taking charge in either one of them … I think that's where true positivity comes from, a good man will stand up and say something."

“You’re going to have a lot of different people that will come in and out of your life and you’ll find mates really that will lift you up.”

“Mateship is a trust. You trust the people that you have around you. Playing State of Origin, that was one of the values in our side.”

“I’m just trying to be the man I needed when I was a kid, growing up.”

"Once you can open up and say exactly who you are, there’s other people out there like you. I thought I was the only person who couldn’t read, but there’s communities of people like me.”

"I had nothing in common with the young boys that I was playing with, but I had to break in. Back then, in the early years, Footy was pretty black and white - they were tough on you, and you had to earn your stripes before you got a game."

“How are you expected, on the toughest day of your life, to reach out to your people if you’ve never had an honest or vulnerable conversation before? It’s nearly impossible.”

“Being fearless is about being comfortable and being secure with who you are as a person, not being afraid to talk about what you are passionate about.”

“I was so full of pride that I had the answers that I didn’t feel comfortable accessing other people’s help. I felt I could do it on my own.”

“Being fearless doesn’t mean you don’t feel fear. The absence of fear is not being immune to it; it’s understanding it, appreciating it and trying to grow from it.”

“But if things aren’t going your way, being able to ask for help … and I did put my hand up, because I wanted to try to figure out what was wrong with me.”

“I would do this pattern of one breath every 15 seconds. Having the discipline to do it would change the way I think about the fear. It would change my whole outlook.”

“For me, it’s standing up for what you believe is right and chasing your dreams. It’s chasing your goals, no matter what setbacks and situations you are going to face.”

“You don’t ask for help because you have failed. You are asking for help because you haven’t yet learnt how to do that action properly.”