Rugby Quotes · Page 6

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

— Bill McLaren

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

— Jonah Lomu

“Even when you can only see part of the moon, the rest is still there.”

— Jax Calder

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

— Murray Mexted

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

— Cliff Morgan

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

— Sue Lawley

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

— Anonymous

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

— Andrew Johns

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

— Anne McClain

But Id missed the boat in rugby, I was stuck in a rut and I needed a change. I was lucky to…

— Gerwyn Price

I was captain of the rugby side at Shrivenham - as were my two brothers after me.

— Dick Strawbridge

Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.

— Bob Norster

We always have plenty of Culture, Media and Sport question sessions and I am always mentioning rugby league to people.

— Lindsay Hoyle

In rugby I think it is good to have a bit of a persona, a bit of a character because we are…

— James Haskell

I wasn't picked for any of the sports teams at school because I was half the size of everyone else, but now…

— Will Poulter

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front…

— Hugh Jackman

When I see rugby league being played, I do think, 'How could I have done that for so long especially in my…

— Rob Burrow

“That’s because I broke up with my boyfriend yesterday. And I can’t stop wondering if I did the right thing or if…

— Jax Calder

If you get a career-threatening injury your career is done and you need something to fall back on. But if it wasn't…

— Jack Butland

To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have…

— Jonny Wilkinson

Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are…

— Kieran Crowley

Honestly, I was only rested in rugby football; all my friends were boys, and I definitely didn't want to go on stage,…

— Georgia Groome

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

— Tom Jones

As far as exercise, I play a lot of lacrosse and rugby, and I'm an avid distance swimmer. Nope, none of that…

— Joshua Malina

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

— Derick Hougaard

The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.

— Alun Wyn Jones

I was in the football, rugby, cricket and hockey teams at school; bit of squash. Tennis obviously.

— Tim Henman

You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be…

— Phil Kearns

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

— Virginia Graham

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

— Alexander Hanson

Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman…

— Peter Pook

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

— Tom Holland

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

— Gordon Brown

I was never ever attracted to any of my rugby mates; I was really good at switching off my emotions and I…

— Gareth Thomas

I have been a rugby league fan all my life - I think it's an absolutely fantastic sport - so it is…

— Lindsay Hoyle

I tried sports, but I ended up being a paramedic. There was to be no rugby for me. Believe me, I did…

— Dereck Chisora

The sports are almost different cultures so saying I prefer one to the other is wrong. Rugby union is guided by a…

— Gareth Thomas

I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.

— David Gilmour

I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to…

— Jason Priestley

I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.

— Allister Coetzee