If you are being paid for doing what you love, then wouldn’t have to work a day in your life and if there is anyone who typifies this age old proverb, it is Manu Tuilagi, the centre for the Aviva Premiership Rugby Football Union club the Leicester Tigers. The big Samoan born Englishman is hardly seen without a smile in his face – even if he had half an ear ripped off, his shirt dripping in blood, he would still have that signature grin etched across his lips.
But then, one comes to realize he is just a youngster playing the game he loves day in and day out and that too, at the peak of his powers. Speaking to the media, the youngest of the six Tuilagi brothers who have pulled on the Leicester Tigers shirt stated that he just loves playing the game. Manu Tuilagi went on to state that being able to do something that you love and then getting paid for it at the end of the day is like living a dream and added that he is living a dream.
Tuilagi also mentioned that he is always happy and that is why he has the smile on his face, but added that underneath that smile, he is really focused as well. And that intense focus doesn’t waver at any time, becoming more and more intense as he prepares for one of the biggest matches of his life, getting ready to take on the eternal rivals Northampton Saints in the final of the Aviva Premiership.
And Manu Tuilagi is really focused after being a part of two finals till date and he is eager to right all the wrongs and get that Aviva Premiership medal around his neck by the end of the match and parade with the trophy.