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I want to be a good person.
Everything I do, I do it being myself.
I am not interested in individual glory.
After giving up rugby, I wanted to keep busy.
The World Cup has not been kind to us overall.
I had a stroke in 2006. I thought: 'This is it.'
I am a rugby player and first and foremost I am a man.
Part of a sportsman's job is taking banter from the crowd.
My brain acts bizarrely and I keep having major mood swings.
When I came out I hoped it would empower others - and it has.
If you can't give 100% to rugby then you can't do it justice.
I don't take any day for granted, I work hard, I'm motivated.
When you cross the whitewash, you only think about the present.
In Toulouse, you immersed yourself in the culture of the place.
People tend to be consumed by sport when the big events come up.
I've been through 20 years of torment battling with my sexuality.
Wherever I am in my life, it's because rugby has enabled me to do that.
I'm a sportsman, as good and strong as you, who just happens to be gay.
I hated being Gareth Thomas. I hated the man I looked at in the mirror.
I'm not a stereotypical gay man but I am a gay man as much as anyone else.
I find it hard to believe that people can be jealous of other people's success.
As a professional sportsman, working out has always been an important part of my life.
It has always been my ambition to be captain of Wales over a sustained period of time.
When I was 16 or 17 I knew I was gay, but knowing and accepting are two very different things.
I really want to remain involved in rugby. I want to continue and have an influence on the game.
There are times in my life when I've wanted never to exist. There's times you don't want to go back to.
If I hadn't had the rugby field to get rid of my aggression I would have been locked up a long time ago.
This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.
It's not about shutting people up or proving them wrong. It's about proving to ourselves what we're about.
Some people say it's sad living in a hotel, but I'd rather be living in an hotel than living in an house on my own.
I know that my parents sacrificed a hell of a lot to make sure that my brothers and I would have all that we needed.
My sport was my comfort. The routine, the camaraderie, the team... everyone's around you. After rugby you're on your own.
If you could bottle that special feeling you sometimes get in a dressing room just before a match, you'd be a billionaire.
People can be really famous in Wales for rugby, but outside of Wales nobody really has a clue who you are or what you've done.
People say getting fit is 90% diet and 10% exercise, but that's bollocks. If you train hard you earn the right to a chocolate bar.
It was a huge honour to be chosen by the Lions and to lead the side, but the greatest of all is to represent your country and win.
All I'm concerned about is that I'm with a good squad of players and want us to be competitive and I'm not looking for anything more.
I've had toiletries explode in my bag and go all over my clothes a few times but I wouldn't let something like that ruin a holiday for me.
When I started doing Twitter, I realised there were so many people following me who were going through the same thing I was going through.
I think what I want to learn more than anything... is that, I've got HIV and it's OK, like. That's what I want to learn more than anything.
It's too easy to forget bad things. By keeping the reminders close, it's the reminder of not just who you are, but how you became what you are.
Sometimes, players find it impossible to see the bigger picture after games for the simple reason that we are the ones who have actually played.
In 1999, we went into the World Cup with a string of victories behind us but we could not handle the pressure and ended up letting ourselves down.
Everything I ever did in my life when I was younger revolved around wanting to play for Wales, and then you get that cap... it's hard to describe.
The sports are almost different cultures so saying I prefer one to the other is wrong. Rugby union is guided by a lot of rules, league by the players.
I was never ever attracted to any of my rugby mates; I was really good at switching off my emotions and I wouldn't have even considered crossing that line.
Finding a release mechanism after the pressure of a Test-match week can take over, and the next game can seem as though it might as well be six months away.
My father always pretends to hate Christmas. But when we were children he was the first one waking us up, saying: 'Do you think Father Christmas has been yet?'
It's only when you leave the rugby bubble that you understand that negative criticism is not personal, it's reality because we don't always get everything right.
I like to think I'm a bit of a son of the country, I've played for the country so many times I feel proud to be Welsh. It's accepted me for what I am and what I do.