Rugby Quotes · Page 7

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

— Ron Atkinson

Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to…

— Mike Catt

I know what it feels like to be one of those conservative rugby lads because I went to a similar school growing…

— Nicholas Galitzine

I went to a school two hours away from where I lived because it was the best rugby school in the country.

— Nicholas Galitzine

I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.

— Brian O'Driscoll

Growing up at school I played a lot of fly-half and a lot of scrum-half, I thought I had a good boot…

— Faf de Klerk

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

— Will Carling

Rugby league has this great history at Wembley through taking the Challenge Cup final there, and the lack of a statue is…

— Lindsay Hoyle

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game:…

— Franz Beckenbauer

I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found…

— Ryan Reynolds

I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all…

— James Spithill

I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is…

— Matthew Rhys

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I…

— Ryan Giggs

I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already…

— Anthony Browne

We all say we enjoy playing rugby, but most guys don't really show it - and some guys I don't think actually…

— Faf de Klerk

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which…

— Roger Bannister

At school, my aggression in sport often got me in trouble. I was even kicked off the rugby team for getting into…

— Dan Hardy

He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.

— Nick Farr-Jones

I'm always prompting MPs to talk about rugby league because it really is the greatest sport.

— Lindsay Hoyle

I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.

— Sidharth Malhotra

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

— Darren Lockyer

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

— Brian O'Driscoll

I played Rugby League at school but once I got to the age of 14, I had to make a choice and…

— Luke Campbell

A rugby tour is like sex. When its good it's great, and when it's bad - hey! It's still pretty good!

— Peter FitzSimons

My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I…

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Obviously a lot has gone on, and I feel I am different person, I haven't had a beer since New Year's, which…

— Todd Carney

My belief is if you watch five games of rugby league, you'll be committed to it for life, because there is no…

— Lindsay Hoyle

A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.

— Philip Toynbee

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for…

— Jonathan Anderson

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

— Alex Wyllie

As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'

— Francois Hougaard

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is…

— Adrian Morley

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

— James Haskell

I've got bigger legs than my husband, who's a rugby player, so trust me, if I was going to intentionally flash a…

— Helen Skelton

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world,

— Helen Clark

Remember the look in the eyes of the Aussies and the Kiwis yesterday - I don't want to see that here.

— John Smit

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

— Jai Courtney

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

— Henry Rollins

“I saw you on that field tonight, you rugby guys look like you were born knowing how to fuck.”

— Amy Andrews

Rugby is a game that's constant. If you are not growing with it, you get left behind.

— Owen Farrell