Rugby Quotes

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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.

The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.

It's basically the same, just darker.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

Your hands can't catch what your eyes can't see.

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby, I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

It's an exciting place to go, really. The rain, the drizzle, the cold, the depressing people, the smokes in the bath ... I don't know of anyone who has been to Blackpool and enjoyed it.

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

A game of rugby is a work of art!

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.

You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that.

We can change South Africa on the rugby field

We're going to tear those boys apart.

The French are predictably unpredictable.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first.

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

I thought I would have a quiet pint ... and about 17 noisy ones.

Andy Ellis - the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago.

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.

Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.

I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.

League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

It's definitely the hardest tackle I've taken in my life but I'm still breathing and that's a good sign.

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.

The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.

I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.

If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.

Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.