Rugby Quotes · Page 10

If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next…

— Bill Beaumont

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

— Oscar Wilde

Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

— David Acfield

Obviously, international rugby is a different level, but there are some really good players around.

— Owen Farrell

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.

— Keith Senior

I'm thankful for the collaboration between the WRU and Ospreys, which will look after my best interests and enables me to play…

— Alun Wyn Jones

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL.…

— Michael Greenfield

International rugby is a step up, and this is somewhere you come to get better and improve as a player.

— Owen Farrell

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea.…

— Rory Bremner

It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off…

— Prince William

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would…

— Alun Wyn Jones

I did several corporate gigs as a presenter, worked on a few branded campaigns and also made money from my rugby events…

— Gethin Jones

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…

— Larry Gelwix

The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law.…

— Martin Jacques

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the…

— Mark Haddon

My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room…

— Julian Clary

Whatever sport I played - rugby, rowing - there were always naturally talented people who were better than me.

— Chris Hoy

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

— Tom O'Reilly

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

— Adrian Hadley

I've seen rugby league come together when one of their own is down. It is when the sport is at its best.

— Rob Burrow

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

— Yoshiro Mori

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

— Jamie Bamber

It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.

— Glenn Morrison

I take a laid-back approach to a lot of things in life and, at the end of the day, rugby's just a…

— Beauden Barrett

Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little…

— Brian O'Driscoll

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

— David Campese

So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all…

— Luke Watson

When I started my professional rugby career, in 2002, there was one guy filming training if you were lucky.

— James Haskell

My sport was my comfort. The routine, the camaraderie, the team... everyone's around you. After rugby you're on your own.

— Gareth Thomas

I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.

— Alun Wyn Jones

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

— Chris Eubank Jr

I've always had a rugby ball in my hand, so it was inevitable I was going to play.

— Owen Farrell

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

— Norman Mair

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

— Peter FitzSimons

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

— Shane Tronc

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

— Rory McIlroy

I feel like I've been victimised. It's because of who I am. I've done my time for past mistakes, if it wasn't…

— John Hopoate

The winger resembles Mother Brown, running with a high knee-lift and sometimes not progressing far from the spot where he started.

— Simon Geoghegan

I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside…

— Jim Glennon

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then…

— Joe Theismann