Rugby Quotes · Page 8

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

— Joe Galuvao

Rugby is a game where everything is connected - from your kicking game to your defence to your set piece and attack.

— Owen Farrell

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I…

— Frank Layden

My goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down.

— Bill McLaren

I thought that if I could play rugby on TV, I'd be able to get my mum a house. That was the…

— Sonny Bill Williams

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and…

— Hamish Bowles

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

— Jack Rowell

I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so…

— Ben Stokes

The quality of players - the likes of Sam Tomkins, Rangi Chase and Lee Briers - bring an X-factor to the game.…

— Brett Finch

I'm not going on a crusade but I'm proud of who I am. I feel I have achieved everything I could ever…

— Gareth Thomas

One of the highlights of my career was playing first class rugby for my province, which was Wellington. Another highlight was playing…

— Filo Tiatia

I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I…

— Douglas Booth

I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've…

— Tanc Sade

I've spent my whole life playing football. My father didn't want me to play rugby because he felt it was very hard…

— Aymeric Laporte

My loves in life are food, history and rugby. I'd love to be a history professor or a rugby player but I…

— Gregg Wallace

In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural…

— Colin Welland

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

— Jonathan Davis

It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.

— Alun Wyn Jones

No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.

— J.P.R. Williams

I will support Ireland at rugby, but when England and Ireland are playing, I sit on the fence.

— Eoin Morgan

This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time…

— Benji Marshall

In reality, rugby is finite and unpredictable, so players need to have skills off the pitch too.

— James Haskell

It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!

— George MacPherson

“No rugby player, no matter how talented, has ever won a game by playing alone.”

— Ben Hunt-Davis

He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far.

— Thomas Leuluai

Rugby is a sport in which you can lose heavily one week and still come back and smash the opposition the next.

— James Haskell

I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field.

— Larry Gelwix

I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.

— Brett White

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go…

— Jonah Lomu

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

— Javier Bardem

Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks…

— Graham Henry

If anyone out there is mildly curious about rugby, I'd recommend a weekend spent watching the Six Nations. I don't think you'll…

— James Haskell

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.

— Nigel Melville

I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.

— Roy Nelson

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the…

— John Newman

After my second film, 'Simhadri,' which was a very big hit, I made 'Sye,' a small college movie with a rugby union…

— S. S. Rajamouli

I really want to remain involved in rugby. I want to continue and have an influence on the game.

— Gareth Thomas

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most…

— Alan Lewis

There will be nothing better than playing international rugby. It's a dream come true.

— Owen Farrell

I came from a rugby school and rugby nation, but I fancied giving football a go, and luckily, it paid off.

— Aaron Ramsey