WATCH: 'Our people make a plan' - Rassie Erasmus on what makes South Africans great

In a recent interview on the Official Springbok YouTube channel, South Africa's champion coach Rassie Erasmus speaks on what makes our country great.

Short answer: it's South Africans.

Watch the video below:

In the video, Rassie comments on what it means to him to be the coach of South Africa's pride and joy, the Springboks.

"It's definitely not for accolades that we're doing this. The feeling of when you see people smiling because we're working together, we're believing in something... we can align, we can mind each other, we can care about each other... for me, that pretty much makes my heart pretty warm."

- Rassie Erasmus

"Our players come from all walks of life and that's certainly something in our team that we have to do: to mind different cultures because we've got 11 languages. And when a certain boy looks you in the eye; he's not challenging you. Or when a certain boy looks down; it's respect you know, and you must mind those kind of things."

- Rassie Erasmus

In the video, our captain Siya Kolisi also comments on what a great country South Africa is to play for.

"In the group we come from different homes... some of us had no choice, we had to do this to get there... that's something I can't explain to people who don't need other people, because everything works around them. It's difficult to explain but in South Africa, I don't need to explain it. People expect the kind of performance that you put on because they know of the things we've been through and what the country has been through."

- Siya Kolisi

Rassie concludes by musing about how the love for rugby will grow in South Africa as it becomes increasingly accessible.

Our back-to-back World Cup-winning coach is PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN - and we are too! No matter the score at the end of a game on Saturday, we love the Bokke!