How Can You Stop the Sun From Shining
You Can't Stop The Dominicus From Shining
'The volume is as compelling and open up-hearted equally Williams is… It is full of the beguiling Sonny Bill sunshine' Don McCrae, Guardian
'Excellent' David Walsh, Sun Times
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Out now: the extraordinary and revealing autobiography of one of rugby's most entertaining and complicated figures
'I lived for wintertime Saturdays and played footy at lunchtime and after school, while at home I passed, kicked, tackled and discussed the game endlessly with my big bro. I ignored bad weather; I merely wanted to play. When there weren't enough numbers to make upwardly teams, a few of us kids would still get together and practise. That'due south where my offloads were born.'
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Every bit a shy part-Samoan boy growing upward in the suburbs of Auckland, Sonny Bill Williams thought about footy constantly. For him, the dream of playing professional person NRL was so big that null else ever came close.
Fast forward to 2004, and eighteen-year-old Sonny Bill's dream was coming truthful. Making his starting time-form debut for the Canterbury Bulldogs, he would get an integral office of their premiership-winning team and exist named Rookie of the Year.
The league culture was train hard, play difficult and then party hard. Alcohol, drugs, women – information technology was a slippery slope for a naïve teen looking to find his place. Also presently, the joy of winning a premiership gave way to an emptiness that not fifty-fifty footy could fix. Struggling, Sonny made a decision that for many was unforgivable. He walked out on the Bulldogs and flew to French republic. Scathing headlines, subpoenas and threatened lawsuits followed. But so too would come up the realisation that he couldn't run from the man in the mirror.
In this powerful, open and honest memoir, Sonny Nib shares the triumphs and missteps of his extraordinary sporting life and reveals how faith and family unit accept made him the homo he is today.
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Sonny Pecker Williams is a once in a generation athlete – a role player with immense sporting talent in rugby league, rugby union and boxing. In his remarkable career, he has won World Cups with the All Blacks in 2011 and 2022 and helped the Kiwis reach the 2013 final of the rugby league equivalent.
Compelling and searingly honest, Y'all Tin't Stop the Dominicus from Shining is essential reading for any sports fan.
Source: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/sonny-bill-williams/you-cant-stop-the-sun-from-shining/9781529387865/
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