Rugby Quotes · Page 8

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

— George MacPherson

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

— James Haskell

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

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

— James Haskell

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

— Thomas Leuluai

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

— Ben Stokes

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

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

— Ryan Giggs

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

— Brett Finch

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was…

— Chris Hoy

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

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

— Franz Beckenbauer

Honestly, I was only rested in rugby football; all my friends were boys, and I definitely didn't want to go on stage,…

— Georgia Groome

Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are…

— Kieran Crowley

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

— Matthew Rhys

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

— Hamish Bowles

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

We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous…

— Dally Messenger

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

— Alun Wyn Jones

I get a huge excitement from seeing the other guys cross the line. It really is a team game rugby, so if…

— Israel Folau

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

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

The winger resembles Mother Brown, running with a high knee-lift and sometimes not progressing far from the spot where he started.

— Simon Geoghegan

I had to write 1500 words on advertising and marketing at the weekend for my business management course, and you can't think…

— Owen Farrell

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

— Alun Wyn Jones

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then…

— Joe Theismann

I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside…

— Jim Glennon

Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.

— Peter FitzSimons

This is a bit different to the Thursday breakfast I'm used to. It's usually just me and my dog.

— Shane Tronc

Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

— Norman Mair

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

I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.

— Alun Wyn Jones

My sport was my comfort. The routine, the camaraderie, the team... everyone's around you. After rugby you're on your own.

— Gareth Thomas

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

— Chris Eubank Jr

So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all…

— Luke Watson

I've seen rugby league come together when one of their own is down. It is when the sport is at its best.

— Rob Burrow

Whatever sport I played - rugby, rowing - there were always naturally talented people who were better than me.

— Chris Hoy

It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.

— Glenn Morrison