Lomu Quotes

#1. Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

Damian Hopley

#2. I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'

Robin Williams

#3. I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.

Jonah Lomu

#4. Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Virginia Woolf

#5. I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.

Jonah Lomu

#6. If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

Christopher Bram

#7. I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

Jonah Lomu

#8. Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

Jonah Lomu

#9. I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.

Jonah Lomu

#10. flashed a spreadsheet he'd created. "Hey, guys," he said, "I think we can build this rocket ourselves." Griffin and Cantrell had downed a couple of drinks by this time and were too deflated to entertain a fantasy.

Ashlee Vance

#11. Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.
'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.
'There's a library?'
'Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.

Ransom Riggs

#12. When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

Jonah Lomu

#13. I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

Jonah Lomu

#14. It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Helen Rowland

#15. Remember how they outlawed acid soon as they found out it was a channel to somethin they didn't want us to see? Why should information be any different?

Thomas Pynchon

#16. I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.

Jonah Lomu

#17. For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.

Jonah Lomu

#18. I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid.

Jonah Lomu

#19. 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.

Jonah Lomu

#20. I was only operating at about 80% of my capacity.

Jonah Lomu

#21. Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

Fred Rogers

#22. 'Revelations' is one of the most important pieces to the African American arts. It assesses the hope and despair of a people and overcoming the struggle with our faith.

Robert Battle

#23. We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

Scott Adams

#24. Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

Jonah Lomu

#25. Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

Rick Santorum

#26. It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

Jonah Lomu

#27. It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.

Jonah Lomu

#28. I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.

Jonah Lomu

#29. Each haka has its own interpretation, but you have to make sure you are in unison with your team-mates; the haka should be a proper war cry.

Jonah Lomu

#30. The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.

Jonah Lomu

#31. It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.

Jonah Lomu

#32. How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.

Jonah Lomu

#33. You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!

Kimora Lee Simmons

#34. Luck will only come to you if you work towards it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#35. Strengthened by the experiences of almost two decades in the various capitals, the Nazis were confident that their best "propaganda" would be their racial policy itself, from which, despite many other compromises and broken promises, they had never swerved for expediency's sake.

Hannah Arendt

#36. I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

Jonah Lomu

#37. It annoys me when people who don't know what they're talking about boo the referee.

Jonah Lomu

#38. Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Jonah Lomu

#39. I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

Dweezil Zappa