133 Quotes by Gareth Thomas

I've been through the first cap, the 50th, and the 100th, and I defy any player who has ever gone past all those milestones to look at each of them and say that first cap isn't the one that makes him tingle the most.

After giving up rugby, I wanted to keep busy.

I was able to come out as gay publicly because my family had accepted me. They thought nothing of it, and without them I wouldn't have been able to do it. If I didn't have them in my life I would have felt like I had no one.

I know it's not easy for people to get to a gym.

This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.

As a professional sportsman, working out has always been an important part of my life.

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.

Playing rugby has been my whole life and for me, keeping fit was part of my job. But when I gave up my career, I was determined to keep motivated, and that isn't always easy when you have lost the competitive edge to it.

Growing up I wasn't aware of a single gay person in our town. The only people who were gay that you had any idea of were Kenny Everett and people like him on TV. I thought, that's not what I am.