Steve Price: Be Your Best

Steve Price is a charismatic and hugely respected leader in the rugby league community. His recall to the 2008 Queensland Origin squad for game two contributed to Queensland s turnaround performance after a demoralising defeat in game one to win the series 2-1. In 2007, he earned a much deserved recall to the Kangaroos, where he again performed with distinction in the their huge victory over the Kiwis.
Before stunning the NRL with what was to be the start of a turnaround for struggling NZ side, the Auckland Warriors, during the 2004 season, Steve Price was the charismatic captain and face of the Canterbury Bulldogs and the rock that held the club together during the salary cap controversy of 2002 and the Coffs Harbour incident less than two years later. Throughout this time he won the respect of the fans, the media and his peers for the dignified way in which he dealt with these issues even though he and the club were under constant scrutiny.
Steve Price has never forgotten his days as a young country kid from Dalby in Queensland who idolised the Maroons and dreamed of donning the blue and gold of Parramatta, yet his achievements since making the Bulldogs side in late 1992 have him poised on the precipice of greatness. He has played in three grand finals with a premiership win in 1995, was named in the Bulldogs 70 year Team of Champions as one of their greatest ever servants, boasts 11 tests for his country and sits alongside Bob Linder as Queensland s most capped forward with 25 State of Origin games to his name. In 2009 he will become just the 11th player in a century of rugby league to play 300 first grade games in a career spanning 16 seasons at the top.
And all of this while battling rumours about his sexuality and an alleged gambling habit, a cruel knee injury that robbed him of captaining the Bulldogs in the 2004 grand final and constant insinuations during his younger years that he wasn t tough enough to make it in the NRL.
Be Your Best is Price s personal account of his journey to the top of the rugby league tree - through what many would deem to be insurmountable obstacles - and provides a unique insight into what it has taken to get there.
This is the story of a true champion who promised his all and found a way to deliver on every promise along the way.