Richie McCaw Soundboard Edit

Dad's father was a farmer and the one before that was farmer, so I just assumed that I'd be a farmer one day and that was what I loved.

Dear it's definitely been one of the things that's helped me maintain the level for so long. When you are doing all those little things right, it's amazing what you can achieve.

I I knew that the momentum was against this and and but we've been in those situations before and it's a matter of not panicking and doing the simple things to get the I guess get the ball back and...

I just remember thinking wow, this is. Makes it real, you know, it's not as though we're trying to say that pressure is not there. Not gonna feel it. Everyone feels it. But how do you deal with?

I knew that. We had a team that was good enough to win the tournament. But it didn't come down to what our talent was. Came down to when the heat came on, we weren't able to find a way to win.

I probably was not even thinking, you know, I can play well whenever it counts and it preps. Over my first few years I've been able to do that to some degree. But as a captain, I sort of had to adm...

I started playing rugby when I was about 6 or 7 and dreams of being a rugby player and play for the country became a goal was just as I got older.

I'm just so proud of every single one of the guys. You know, we could have been under more pressure there at times and we stuck tight, stacked their guns and you know, we got there in the end.

If you don't deliver it when it counts, then it's a waste of time.

Look, at the moment, I'm still part of this team. I'm gonna enjoy today. And you know, how could you get enough of this? So. We'll worry about that after today. I just wanna enjoy.

Margins at the top level were small. You know, nutrition plays a pretty vital part.

Ohh might. Like how to describe? I'm absolutely shaggy.

Sometimes there are moments that are so undeniable that you can't move past them. Often it's adversity and sometimes in sport it hits you in the face.

There's gonna be a lot of stories told as we get older, but no one can ever take this away from this group and from, you know this this bunch of men, and they're tough men and they've lifted the wa...

Uh, I think more excitement than appreciate, to be honest. I'm really looking forward to the opportunity.

We need to not just pay lip service to the mental side or just say because we're going to train harder, we're going to be better. We need to actually do some work on addressing the elephant in the ...

We're no good when it really all comes down to at one moment or that one day.

You know, so training harder or being fatter, I don't think that would have made any difference that day.

You know, that's where it became a bit like, well, how am I going to get there? Or is it just the fact I haven't got it and that's it?

You know. You gotta be worried as to when this you gotta keep getting up and kicking up and when things come out here, just keep getting up and believing and make the side you trusting him through ...