“I love Vegemite sandwiches, Milo, ham sandwiches, chicken breasts, and...” — Adriano Zumbo Quote

“I love Vegemite sandwiches, Milo, ham sandwiches, chicken breasts, and that's all I used to eat. I wouldn't eat anything else. So at home there was always two sets of dinner, one for Mum and Dad and one for me, because I was so fussy.”

“I couldn't pay attention to a novel; I'd get three pages in and couldn't remember what it was about.”

“There were some flavors that didn't work, like doughnut-flavored Tim Tams.”

“Football was so over-awing, so intense, just everything in your life. You couldn't go anywhere, really, with my dad and the circus around football became too much for me at a young age. I fell back in love with it probably around 13-14. It was much to do with the camaraderie, the team-work and being part of a team.”

“There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.”