Rugby Quotes · Page 4

The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is…

— Vivian Jenkins

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've been truly overwhelmed by the good luck messages I have received from the rugby world and the fantastic support I've had…

— Matthew Rees

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

— James Haskell

With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.

— Mark Zupan

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

— Jonah Lomu

While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence…

— Danny Care

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

— Rory Bremner

When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off…

— Daniel Cudmore

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

“Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while…

— paul murray

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

— Jai Courtney

Passionate people watch rugby league, we've just got to expand the passion and the numbers.

— Lindsay Hoyle

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

— Brian O'Driscoll

The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure…

— Simon Hoggart

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

— Richard Burton

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

— Gordon Brown

My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I…

— Filo Tiatia

It's only when you leave the rugby bubble that you understand that negative criticism is not personal, it's reality because we don't…

— Gareth Thomas

I thought maybe I'd stick it out for a year or two and then end up going back to Rugby but I…

— Gerwyn Price

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.

— Francois Hougaard

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

— Roger Bannister

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

— Lindsay Hoyle

A friend of mine - one of the rugby girlfriends - got qualified to do lip stuff and she was like: 'I'm…

— Chloe Madeley