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"We have so many problems in our country but a team like this, we come from different backgrounds, different races but we came together with one goal and we wanted to achieve it."

Siya Kolisi, South Africa's first black Test captain on the Springboks' run to World Cup glory

"In South Africa pressure is not having a job. Pressure is one of your close relatives being murdered."

Rassie Erasmus, South Africa's World Cup-winning head coach, eloquently putting the pressure of his job into perspective