Ball Quote by Chuck Todd

I wouldn't particularly say I liked rugby but it got us playing football.

— Shaun Wright-Phillips

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage…

— George Orwell

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

— Winston Churchill

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to…

— Charlie Pierce

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby…

— Clint Eastwood

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

— Carl Sagan

When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets…

— Daniel Cudmore

When I was younger, I really loved playing rugby.

— Phil Dunster

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone…

— Fred Frith

I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.

— Roy Nelson

Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town.…

— Ray Liotta

Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent…

— Peter Pook