There's ego in all of us rugby players.

Rugby takes its toll.

I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.

I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.