Rugby Quotes · Page 5

South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone.

— Rudolph Straeuli

I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

— Colin Meads

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

— Oscar Wilde

I admire rugged hard men who play rugby because it's something I would never contemplate.

— Chris Eubank Sr

The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us.

— Dickie Jeeps

I was an outside half in rugby, and in cricket I used to open the bowling. I played for Welsh schools at…

— Colin Jackson

The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter…

— Nigel Starmer-Smith

I think the main message is that world rugby needs New Zealand and New Zealand needs world rugby.

— Mike Miller

I just remember, it seemed to be the thing to do to get up a three o'clock in the morning and watch…

— Beauden Barrett

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

— Brian O'Driscoll

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the…

— Mark Haddon

My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room…

— Julian Clary

The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law.…

— Martin Jacques

I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in…

— Jake Friend

I played fly-half in rugby, so I could influence the game, and midfield in hockey too. So it is part of my…

— Jonny Bairstow

For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with…

— Jonny Wilkinson

I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game…

— Graham Lowe

It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off…

— Prince William

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

Bowen is a Welsh name and the family background is more rugby than football, but we're English through and through.

— Jarrod Bowen

When I was growing up Harlequins were interested in signing me because I was very fast and strong at an early age,…

— Anthony Yarde

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

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

— John Smit

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

— Joe Galuvao

“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

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

— Adrian Morley

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

— Alex Wyllie

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

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

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

— Darren Lockyer

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

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

— Nick Farr-Jones

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

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

It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who…

— Larry Gelwix

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

— Brian O'Driscoll