Rugby Quotes · Page 5

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

— Rob Andrew

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

— Bill McLaren

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

— Jonah Lomu

If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.

— Russell Crowe

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

— Brett Morris

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

— Chris Laidlaw

The French are predictably unpredictable.

— Andrew Mehrtens

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

— Willie Mason

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

— John Smit

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world,

— Helen Clark

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

At school, my aggression in sport often got me in trouble. I was even kicked off the rugby team for getting into…

— Dan Hardy

Rugby league has this great history at Wembley through taking the Challenge Cup final there, and the lack of a statue is…

— Lindsay Hoyle

I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.

— Brian O'Driscoll

Growing up at school I played a lot of fly-half and a lot of scrum-half, I thought I had a good boot…

— Faf de Klerk

If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.

— Will Carling

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 grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove…

— Greg Davies

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

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

— Matthew Rees

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

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

— Anthony Yarde

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

— Bob Dwyer

My week at school would be good or bad depending on whether Balmain won. I have such fond memories of those suburban…

— Matthew Nable

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

— Georgie Fame

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

— Israel Folau

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

— Vernon Davis

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

— Dan Carter

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

— Damian Hopley

Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

— Braith Anasta

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

— Brian O'Driscoll

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

— Jennifer Coolidge

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

Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.

— David Campese

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

— Jack Butland

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

— Brian O'Driscoll

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

— Carlos Slim

I grew up playing rugby and I kind of never lost the muscle size.

— Nicholas Galitzine

I'm just trying to figure out where I can get my Ebner rugby jersey.

— Matthew Slater