Rugby Quotes

I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.

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

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

Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball?

Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.

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

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

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

I have more critics than Hitler.

I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

Good big blokes are better than good little blokes. Then again, good little blokes are better than dud big blokes. And dud big blokes should play something other than Rugby

If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.

Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.

The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us.

On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.

I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

You blindfold yourself and spin around for 10 times and then open your eyes and try to chase it down.

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

I did not think I would make the grade.

Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.

School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

I'm a great believer in what happens on the field should stay there.

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

This is a bit different to the Thursday breakfast I'm used to. It's usually just me and my dog.

Obviously a lot has gone on, and I feel I am different person, I haven't had a beer since New Year's, which is pretty big for me.

There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips.

It's going to be tough but I think I was more nervous about playing NRL than I will be playing this match simply because I've got Billy Slater in front of me and there were a lot of expectations.

I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!

Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia?

New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.

Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start.