"It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant."

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Source : "First & last: Jonah Lomu". Interview with Nick Green, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

Jonah Lomu

#Years Quotes #Choices Quotes #World Quotes

“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.”
“If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.”
“Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.”
“The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the individual self is fulfilled in the Great Self. Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy from the source that has brought the universe through the centuries. New fields of energy become available to support the human venture. These new energies find expression and support in celebration. For in the end the universe can only be explained in terms of celebration. It is all an exuberant expression of existence itself..”
“I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.”
“Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.”
“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”
“To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.”

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