“I came through two very different eras of female sports. I started out in the days when we were running raffle tickets and doing hāngī fundraisers to get us to Auckland to play in the World Cup back in 2003.” — Honey Hireme-Smiler.
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“The policy of excluding Māori from tours to South Africa began in the 1920s — and by the 1930s, there was a big switch over from rugby union to rugby league among Māori footballers in some parts of the motu.” — Ryan Bodman.
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“We’ve always been strongly both Māori and Tongan. You sometimes hear people talk about being half this and half that, but I’ve never felt that. I’ve always felt Tongan and always felt Māori.” — Don Mann.
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“I’ve fallen in love with what it means to be Māori.” — Tony Kemp.
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Rugby league great Olsen Filipaina (Sāmoan-Ngāpuhi) died last week, on February 10. Here’s a piece we ran about him in 2020, extracted from ‘The Big O’, by Patrick Skene.
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