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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

The most important lessons are learned during the process. Pay attention to the process.

I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in which there appeared, according to the moment, impassioned men, indifferent men, jealous men.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this one.

You're changing, the world is changing, and your hopes and aspirations are regularly being updated. That's why I say this is a life long struggle - for everybody.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.