by Nick Cummins
Most players like to do a couple of years overseas to finish up careers once they get the tap back home. There are many benefits. I put it down to the three Ls – lifestyle, leisure and loot.
Some players like to go overseas at their prime in an attempt to secure their future. Why not!? It’s their choice. Ben Mowen, a former Wallaby captain, did this. He went to France after he led the 2013 spring tour. Ben is a top bloke, has a young family and needs to do what’s best for them. The bloke writing this book did a similar thing. And who knows where the future will lead me.
I don’t regret many things in life. But one of the few things I do is not spending enough time in one place to really get amongst it on rugby tours. I’ve been lucky to have a taste but when you do you just want more!
So when I am finished playing I would love to revisit some of the places I’ve seen and have a really good Captain Cook. This world’s not a bad joint and I’d love to see a lot more of it.
Take care, be good and have a crack – you won’t regret it!
The Badger
Just talking goat stuff.
Had a quick snakes hiss, I must have loosened the foundations . . .
Keeping it real in Rio – the Olympics beach volleyball court to be precise.
About the Author
The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as NICHOLAS CUMMINS (/Cummo/ or /Nick/), is a species of rugby player native to Queensland, Port Macquarie and Perth. Despite its size, the honey badger does not closely resemble other wingers; instead, it bears more anatomical similarities to a forward. It is classed as a Smartarse by most, owing to its extensive range of puns, analogies, mischief and general ability to adapt to any environment. It is primarily a carnivorous species – beef its preference – and has few natural predators because of its thick skin, self-deprecating sense of humour and ferocious defensive abilities.
A true character in a world of professional sport dominated by robots, Nick ‘The Honey Badger’ Cummins has established himself as an endearing, self-deprecating cult figure of Australian sport courtesy of his unprecedented and equally unpredictable interviews and media appearances.
His unique ability to conjure similes, analogies and one-liners seemingly from nowhere have seen the Wallabies winger transcend the sport to become an international online hit, a brand ambassador for rhyming slang, a must-have for any talk show and all the while, maintain his colloquial charm, humility and wit.
And as No.4 in a family of eight, having grown up in Queensland under the rough and tumble rule of his equally adventurous and laugh-a-minute father, The Honey Badger has an entire lifetime of outrageous yarns under his belt.
Laugh with him, laugh at him, laugh him off. The Honey Badger is just happy to be here. Happy to be alive after dingo attacks, a Cambodian assassination plot and numerous other near-death experiences – most of which were his own doing – that made him the jovial human he is today.
If you’d like more tall tales on true from the Badge, be sure to get your hands on
Nick’s first book is packed with his sensational sayings, ripper yarns and pure Aussie wisdom, Tales of the Honey Badger is a charming collection of short stories celebrating the importance of family, mates, rugby and getting out amongst it.
Praise for the Adventures of the Honey Badger
Winger and wordsmith Nick Cummins can now add author to his resume.
The Project, Network Ten
It’s been a very long time since I’ve laughed so much at a book.
Goodreads
Tales of the Honey Badger is Australian yarn-telling at its modern finest. It’s larger than life, and yet somehow captures perfectly the mischievous childhoods many of us remember fondly.
Hush Hush Biz
Hilarious. Cummins recounts adventures, mishaps and momentous occasions in the most colloquially articulate (is that even possible?) of ways.
He had me in stitches throughout.
Goodreads
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First published in Australia in 2016
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Copyright © Nick Cummins & Mark Cummins 2016
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Cummins, Nick, 1987- author.
Adventures of the Honey Badger / Nick Cummins, Mark Cummins.
Subjects: Cummins, Nick, 1987–Anecdotes.
Cummins, Nick, 1987–Humour.
Rugby Union football players–Australia–Humour.
Australian wit and humour.
Other Creators/Contributors: Cummins, Mark, author.
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Cover images: Main photo of Nick Cummins by Darren Holt; all other photos of Nick Cummins courtesy of the author; background images by shutterstock.com