Sonny Bill Williams Quotes

It was really tough being 14 and moving away from home.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.

I knew I needed to move away when I was 15, but when I got to Norwich, I spent nights crying myself to sleep with homesickness. For any young kid moving away from home, that is the biggest thing you have to deal with.

It definitely took me a while to adjust to L.A. I came out knowing nobody, and I'd never lived away from home before.

Going to Charlotte and being there two years, I missed L.A., but it was good for me.

The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.

You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

One does not live in a country for 34 years and find it easy to go.

It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I'd set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough.

The first few months in a new country are always really hard.

When I signed for Vancouver, it was funny because my mom didn't really want me to move away. She was concerned about all my schooling.

I don't want to go back to Europe. I've said that several times.

I moved out to L.A. from New York... and I remember feeling, kind of like anyone does when they first move, so very lonely and isolated.

The first time I moved to L.A., I was there for five months, and my health got so bad because of how depressed I was.

Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.

It's difficult to adapt to Barcelona.