Cup finals Quote by Bernard Laporte

Whether you win or lose against English teams, you always feel it's been a proper contest.

— Diego Simeone

God somehow makes sure that in international rugby nobody wins ALL the time!

— Bob Dwyer

I have been in tournaments before where people would say, 'England should win this game,' and we didn't.

— Jordan Henderson

You tell that to people until you are blue in the face and they struggle to believe it, but I am being totally truthful…

— Gareth Thomas

England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

— David Lloyd

The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.

— Zinedine Zidane

The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.

— Alun Wyn Jones

“They might have beaten us at our national sport, but we managed to beat them at their national sport twice in the 20th century.…

— Margaret Thatcher

A lot of times games are lost rather than won.

— Bret Bielema

A lot of people make the error of thinking rugby is going to last forever and they need to quickly discover that that isn't…

— James Haskell

Winners lose sometimes, but when they lose they keep trying it over and over again until they finally win.

— Sonya Parker

Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all.

— Jonny Wilkinson