Quotes About New Zealand

My motivation is being unified heavyweight champion of the world, making New Zealand and my family proud.

I was actually in New Zealand studying, and I just got discovered. I was with my friend shopping, and this woman came up to me and was like, 'Would you like to come in? I own an agency.'

I was actually born in Belgium and lived there until I was 11, then moved to Australia for a year, then moved to New Zealand, so I only lived there from when I was 12 to 18.

Every time we go to New Zealand, it gets harder to leave. Everyone's always treated us like we're at home.

I've been to New Zealand before, many times. And of course it has a significance to me because I do have something that's very special in New Zealand. I have '10 Guitars,' which is a very popular song, and I understand it's like the second national anthem over there.

I love New Zealand and don't get to come there much. The south coast of Australia and New Zealand have a similar vibration, and a lot of the music comes from this kind of space.

If you're making films in New Zealand, you can't avoid the landscape. It's certainly more handsome than I am.

We have got amazing filmmakers in New Zealand with amazing stories to tell, and I want to keep being a part of that.

I have toured New Zealand before and know they love the game, and they are so caring and loving, so I don't expect anything untoward from them.

When we get peace in Afghanistan, we'll go to New Zealand to learn best practices for raising sheep. We'll go to Switzerland and study hydroelectric projects.

I feel unfinished business with the WBO title because that was my first loss when I went to New Zealand with Joseph Parker.

I grew up in Newquay and lived close to the ocean for a few years in New Zealand, too. I'm instinctively happy in those surroundings.

There are a lot of sports that New Zealand does very well but MMA is a truly global sport and it's practiced in the farthest reaches of this earth.

I come from a place that is very politically sophisticated and progressive. New Zealand was the first place to give women the right to vote.

I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and I've had moments in my life where being female is considered to be a tremendous advantage - emotionally, career-wise.

Peter Jackson was very good to me after I made my first film, he was really one of the best things that happened after that movie. I was invited to New Zealand to go hang out with him on 'The Hobbit', and so for two weeks I got to sit next to him and watch him direct, and it was the most amazing experience you could ever have.

I was in Fiji for some years. From there I went over to New Zealand to work as a store manager. But I was modeling for various companies at the same time.

I had the honor of doing a two-man show with Julie Andrews around Australia and New Zealand.

New Zealand has this funny attitude towards celebrities where we're not so impressed. We are secretly impressed, but we never want to show it, so we're not sycophantic about it.

Every time we visit my sister Karen in New Zealand I spend the next two months Googling properties and dreaming of escaping the British winter.

I loved the pace of life and the majesty of New Zealand. It's similar to Scotland - but feels newer.

In Australia and New Zealand I had big, big success.

I played to the biggest audience I've ever played to in my life in New Zealand. I couldn't see the end of the crowd. I understand it was over 200,000 people in a park somewhere.

We are very conscious of our poor record against the SANZAR nations. We've simply not done well enough against New Zealand or South Africa.