To be remembered for all the things that you do and as someone who makes people smile, touches people's lives – that is what should wake you up every single morning.
Recorded Red Bull, 8 November 2019 source
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Siya Kolisi
South Africa international rugby union flanker and captain
South Africa · b. 1991
Became the first black captain of the South Africa men's rugby team in 2018 and led the Springboks to Rugby World Cup victories in 2019 and 2023. He grew up in the township of Zwide in Port Elizabeth and published a memoir, Rise, in 2021.
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I think I wouldn't have made it if I didn't go through those struggles but that still doesn't make it right for kids to have to go through the past that I went through.
Recorded Red Bull, 8 November 2019 source
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