George North: "I learned my biggest core values in rugby."

About this episode

George North discusses his rugby career, core values learned through the sport, and personal reflections on fatherhood and resilience.

In our sixth and final episode of this series we are talking to Wales’ top six nations try scorer and all-around superstar George North. Last but by no means least, this conversation saw us laugh, cry and really reflect on the ways in which rugby, and sport in general, can embellish your life. Together we traced the arc of his legendary career to look at the man behind the highlights – fatherhood, moments of doubt and how we build resilience. George started in the wilds of Llangefni up in Anglesey, where his Mum is from, and from where his Dad, a Yorkshireman, drove him from, up and down the lengths and breadth of Wales to make sure he was where he needed to be to become the player we know him as today. George is still playing and for this episode we went over to Stade Maurice David in Provence to see him in his new home turf. But his first home turf was in Llangefni, down on the fields beyond the cabbage patches and in football country, which meant it wasn’t always 14 others he was playing with but a mish mash of players from here and there, but still it’s the place that he says he learned his core values that still take him through life today. From George talking about the…

People in this episode

Host: Beyond the Breakdown

Guest: George North

Topics covered

• rugby
• resilience
• fatherhood
• career reflection
• core values

Keywords

• George North
• rugby
• core values
• fatherhood
• resilience
• Wales
• career

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Wales, Llangefni, Anglesey, Stade Maurice David