Rugby Quotes · Page 4

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

— Javier Bardem

I was eight years old and I was playing rugby for my local club.

— Kelvin Fletcher

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

— Mickey Rourke

I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.

— Brian O'Driscoll

Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

— Braith Anasta

I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.

— Jennifer Coolidge

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

— Damian Hopley

I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.

— Vernon Davis

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

— Charlie Bewley

As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.

— Brett Finch

My father is passionately Welsh, he had it drilled into him as a kid. They're very proud of their flag and their…

— Lee Evans

I played rugby until I was 15, 16 and I eventually had to say, 'No, I have to choose one' and it…

— Jack Butland

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

— Roger Bannister

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

“The width of neck and shoulder suggested a rugby player, the broken nose confirmed it. Which shows just how wrong you can…

— Spike Milligan

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

— Lindsay Hoyle

I remember when I was a kid rugby players were some big guys that drunk a lot of beer but now they…

— Dorian Yates

It is the toughest, most macho of male sports, and with that comes an image. In many ways, it is barbaric, and…

— Gareth Thomas

This is God's way of saying you've achieved so much, here's your chance to play against the world's best players. There's got…

— Jarryd Hayne

Good big blokes are better than good little blokes. Then again, good little blokes are better than dud big blokes. And dud…

— Bob Dwyer

I could go fishing with Paul Gascoigne, I could go for a pint and a game of doms with Ian Durrant. There's…

— Ally McCoist

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 was overwhelmed with messages of support I received from people around the rugby world. Sometimes you take it for granted, but…

— Matthew Rees

Once I realised what boxing was, I understood - this is the ultimate form of competition. Once you box you go back…

— Chris Eubank Jr

I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first.

— Dan Carter

Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.

— Willie Mason

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

— Ben Hunt-Davis

It was a really tough transition going from rugby league to AFL.

— Israel Folau

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

— Georgie Fame

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

— Carlos Slim

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

— Brian O'Driscoll

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

— Jack Butland

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

— Cliff Morgan

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

— Sue Lawley

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

— Owen Farrell

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

— Murray Mexted

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

— Chris Laidlaw

If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.

— Brett Morris

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

— Jonah Lomu

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

— Bill McLaren