Rugby Quotes · Page 7

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

— Brian O'Driscoll

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

— Jarrod Bowen

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 was playing both rugbys, I would just jump into any sport. I just loved sport.

— Dan Hooker

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

— Pierre Danos

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

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

— Mike Miller

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

— Dickie Jeeps

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 is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would…

— Alun Wyn Jones

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

— Rory Bremner

When I was younger, I played football and table tennis for local teams. I also played mini-rugby at primary school - I…

— Andrew Flintoff

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

— Spike Milligan

I was always driven by the idea that if people ever found out about who I was then the stature I created…

— Gareth Thomas

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he…

— Ryan Giggs

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

— Colin Jackson

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

— Anne McClain

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

— Anonymous

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the…

— Andrew Johns

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.

— Andrew Mehrtens

Mum used to take us to Breach Candy on the number 63 bus. After school, we'd swim, ride horses, play rugby.

— Karan Kapoor

I was quite often told I was too small to play rugby, but I always liked the adversity and to prove people…

— Rob Burrow

In rugby I think it is good to have a bit of a persona, a bit of a character because we are…

— James Haskell

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

— Lindsay Hoyle

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

— Tom Jones

Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.

— Bob Norster

But Id missed the boat in rugby, I was stuck in a rut and I needed a change. I was lucky to…

— Gerwyn Price

I was captain of the rugby side at Shrivenham - as were my two brothers after me.

— Dick Strawbridge

I don't think you need to go global rugby to save the Lions, but I think you need to go global rugby…

— Alun Wyn Jones

If I hadn't had the rugby field to get rid of my aggression I would have been locked up a long time…

— Gareth Thomas

I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

— Peter Jackson

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'

— Anthony Browne

The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.

— Jean-Pierre Rives

We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips.

— Brett Morris

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

— Elizabeth Taylor

They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

— Bernard Laporte

I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby.…

— Bill Murray

Hell yess NZL ALL BLACKS HAVE DEFEAT AUSTRALIAN WALLABIES 47-29 GO NZL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

— Nikislonelyfornow