Day Quote by Gareth Thomas

When I was younger, I really loved playing rugby.

— Phil Dunster

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

— Dan Hooker

I've spent my whole life playing football. My father didn't want me to play rugby because he felt it was very hard on the…

— Aymeric Laporte

It is the toughest, most macho of male sports, and with that comes an image. In many ways, it is barbaric, and I could…

— Gareth Thomas

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

— Shaun Wright-Phillips

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

— Roy Nelson

I was training my whole younger life to be a sportsman. Rugby was my main thing.

— Nicholas Galitzine

I played rugby until I was 15, 16 and I eventually had to say, 'No, I have to choose one' and it was obviously…

— Jack Butland

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

My sport was my comfort. The routine, the camaraderie, the team... everyone's around you. After rugby you're on your own.

— Gareth Thomas

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a…

— Jonah Lomu

I know my dad would have loved me to have played rugby. He was a No. 8. I started off playing centre and ended…

— Jack Butland