Rugby Quotes · Page 8

Going to a final and winning is the best thing in life, and it makes rugby no longer a job. It makes…

— James Haskell

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL.…

— Michael Greenfield

International rugby is a step up, and this is somewhere you come to get better and improve as a player.

— Owen Farrell

I'm thankful for the collaboration between the WRU and Ospreys, which will look after my best interests and enables me to play…

— Alun Wyn Jones

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.

— Keith Senior

Obviously, international rugby is a different level, but there are some really good players around.

— Owen Farrell

Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

— David Acfield

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global…

— Yoshiro Mori

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 always big. I was kind of around this size, like, since I went into high school. I played rugby and…

— Seth Rogen

I used to play rugby, polo, tennis, and cricket in school. It was only in the 1990s, when I used to live…

— Adnan Sami

The World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played…

— Sam Tomkins

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

— Dorian Yates

We are a rugby family really. My dad and both granddads played rugby. Dad was good, on his way to Bath until…

— Jack Butland

Ryles and I were looking around at the calibre of players in this side, you do think ... you are very lucky…

— Willie Mason

A friend of mine - one of the rugby girlfriends - got qualified to do lip stuff and she was like: 'I'm…

— Chloe Madeley

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

— Glenn Morrison

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

— Jamie Bamber

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

League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.

— Adrian Hadley

Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between…

— Tom O'Reilly

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

— Chris Hoy

There was no way I was going to end up in the scrum when I came to rugby - you know, waste…

— Sonny Bill Williams

The quality in women's rugby league is absolutely incredible and our players can go and become world champions.

— Lindsay Hoyle

With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.

— Mark Zupan

I'm from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything, I always felt I've been tough, and that my…

— Tony Finau

If you play rugby, all you think about is rugby. Someone asks you a question, you say; RUGBY

— Riley Jonasen

A bugbear of mine is bragging rights in regional derbies: it would be a lot more worth to the regional game if…

— Alun Wyn Jones

I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.

— Patrice Evra

You blindfold yourself and spin around for 10 times and then open your eyes and try to chase it down.

— Ric Suggitt

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

— Oscar Wilde

Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.

— Craig Coleman

If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next…

— Bill Beaumont

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my…

— Jonny Wilkinson

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

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

Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

— Rory McIlroy

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

— Owen Farrell

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

— Norman Mair