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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside… — Jim Glennon Copy Share Image
The winger resembles Mother Brown, running with a high knee-lift and sometimes not progressing far from the spot where he started. — Simon Geoghegan Copy Share Image
When I started my professional rugby career, in 2002, there was one guy filming training if you were lucky. — James Haskell Copy Share Image
So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all… — Luke Watson Copy Share Image
I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago. — David Campese Copy Share Image
I take a laid-back approach to a lot of things in life and, at the end of the day, rugby's just a… — Beauden Barrett Copy Share Image
Players want to play a lot of rugby. We're walking contradictions at times in that we want to play a lot of… — Alun Wyn Jones Copy Share Image
It is the toughest, most macho of male sports, and with that comes an image. In many ways, it is barbaric, and… — Gareth Thomas Copy Share Image
The media character-assassinated me and perceived me as this monster. When you look at my record ... I jumped a taxi as… — Willie Mason Copy Share Image
I came to darts from rugby and I was chucked into the deep end. Back then I never thought I could talk… — Gerwyn Price Copy Share Image
New Zealand is famous around the world for sports, including rugby and yachting. In Japan the black jersey and the haka of… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the… — Gareth Ellis Copy Share Image
When I left rugby and bought my first commercial gym membership it was a shock to the system. I went in there… — James Haskell Copy Share Image
It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little… — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming. — Chris Eubank Jr Copy Share Image
I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well. — Alun Wyn Jones Copy Share Image
My sport was my comfort. The routine, the camaraderie, the team... everyone's around you. After rugby you're on your own. — Gareth Thomas Copy Share Image
Rugby is a sport in which you can lose heavily one week and still come back and smash the opposition the next. — James Haskell Copy Share Image
He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far. — Thomas Leuluai Copy Share Image
“No rugby player, no matter how talented, has ever won a game by playing alone.” — Ben Hunt-Davis Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more! — George MacPherson Copy Share Image
I will support Ireland at rugby, but when England and Ireland are playing, I sit on the fence. — Eoin Morgan Copy Share Image
This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time… — Benji Marshall Copy Share Image
In reality, rugby is finite and unpredictable, so players need to have skills off the pitch too. — James Haskell Copy Share Image
Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks… — Graham Henry Copy Share Image
Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go… — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married. — Brett White Copy Share Image
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan. — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field. — Larry Gelwix Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down. — Bill McLaren Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rugby is a game where everything is connected - from your kicking game to your defence to your set piece and attack. — Owen Farrell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league. — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby. — Alun Wyn Jones Copy Share Image
I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so… — Ben Stokes Copy Share Image
