Peter Bills > Quotes

“I am what I am, and this is what I want to be.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“Q: After your prostate is removed because of cancer, what happens to you?

A: [he first discusses the surgery itself]…
Anyway, I can tell you that it made a big difference in my mental outlook.
I found that I thought with my emotions.
In my “normal” phase my thinking is a fairly dry, dispassionate affair. I cogitate, mull it over, think about whatever.
Under the influence of the hormone blocker, I was shocked at the difference. Every thought had an emotional response tied up with it somehow. It seemed to me that the emotion was the thought. It wasn’t so much that I got emotional about a thought I was having. The emotion and the thought were one and the same. No, more than that: the emotion was the more important part.
I didn’t like it.”
― Peter Bills

“It is New Zealand’s mantra for success. As a member of their coaching staff put it to me, ‘Simplicity = Clarity = Intensity.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“Vince Lombardi? ‘Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“We are a team (now) that is built very much on “we”, not “me”.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“One French village has gained a place in New Zealand folklore for different reasons. Le Quesnoy”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“One day, King Rooster; the next, a feather duster,’ said Jones. A succinct summary.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“hate to lose more than I love to win,’ said US tennis star Jimmy Connors.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“He is there but I cannot find him The man I once knew has disappeared Gone as in death. Lost somewhere in the maze of his mind Bewildered. Confused without understanding Not knowing what to do. The whereabouts of things What is happening. I grieve the loss, feel the sorrow. Yet for him, he has no concerns For today or tomorrow”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“The hammer in the builder’s bag.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“For us, it is about hand up, not hand out.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“As Salvador Dali once put it, ‘Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“It persuades them to murder every muscle, torture each tendon.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“getting them to understand who they really are, rather than who they think they should be.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team

“There’s no yielding to status in a rugby tackle, there’s no privilege in a scrum.”
― Peter Bills, The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team