RNZ: Sportsman of the Year - A Suburban Philosophy

These are your power years. Go on and take them. By Jan Hellriegel.

Never ever, no matter what, take your eye off the prize until you have won it. By Jan Hellriegel.

Music brings us into the world, travels with us on our journey and then bids us farewell. By Jan Hellriegel.

If you could do anything, what would you do? By Jan Hellriegel.

Take one step at a time. Just put one foot in front of the other. By Jan Hellriegel.

Great loves have been the inspiration for a lot of great love songs. And a lot of rubbish, too. By Jan Hellriegel.

When you are growing up, life sometimes seems totally random. But at other times it's all like a set of perfect coincidences. By Jan Hellriegel

How hard is it for a woman to have a career in music? By Jan Hellriegel

They say you should never meet your heroes. But that isn't always true.

They say knockbacks, rejections and mistakes just make us stronger. The worst gig in the world tested this philosophy. 

Doing something, even if it fails, is better than doing nothing.

In episode one of Sportsman of the Year Jan Hellriegel argues that some of the worst things in life might just turn out to be the best.

An album, a book and a podcast, Sportsman of the Year is a celebration of life, its foibles and its perfect imperfection, and tells a tale of grit and of never giving up.