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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility.

A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.

Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

To be a first partaker is to understand the principles needed

For months I had been trying to be less myself.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.

For man is by nature an artist.