Kieran Read

You've got to have a drive.

The players I played with who became great, they just did everything they could to get themselves in the position to be great.

Yeah, yeah.

And so that starts with within.

You've got to find that within you.

And then it's like, okay, it's easy to go and do that little bit of extra training or find whatever it is that's going to help you be the best you can be.

And then once I kind of had that within me, and I think that was there, like you've got to set up your week right.

So habits, how you create routines in your week, just prime you to be consistent and

to make sure that you're consistently good every time.

And so that's probably, I think, what I learned from a few guys and what I brought into my game that allowed me to be, you know, I felt like I was consistent every week and could live up to such a high standard because...

You've done the work every time.

Consistent weight, consistent performance.

It is that simple.

And it's funny what, you know, obviously within that, it's got to be high quality stuff, but, you know, it gives you a good chance.

It sets you up.

And then it all comes down to your mind and putting you in the right position.

Yes, it is a routine, but more just around how I set up the changing room, basically.

I listened to music on the bus, but it wasn't the same every time.

It was just what I wanted and more pretty.

uh nothing that was over the top pretty chilled um and so yeah it was more like when i got to the shed it was okay i put my boots here all in the same spot i always put my mouth guard here put my lifters here and kind of set it up yeah way superstitious at all and then put my jersey up and put it out the right turn it out so it's got my number number eight facing me and it's like shit i look at that and i'm like i'm on here right like i know if i come back and look at that i'm