Rugby Quotes

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.

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

I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.

In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

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

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.

This is God's way of saying you've achieved so much, here's your chance to play against the world's best players. There's got to be some reason behind it. It has to be God. It's been created because of Him and the belief the boys have in Him.

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.

Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.

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

A game of rugby is a work of art!

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

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

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

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

We're going to tear those boys apart.

We can change South Africa on the rugby field

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

The French are predictably unpredictable.

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

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

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