Compelled Quote by Rupert Giles

Wherever I am in my life, it's because rugby has enabled me to do that.

— Gareth Thomas

Rugby takes its toll.

— Brian O'Driscoll

Ultimately, we are professional rugby people, and we focus on the rugby. That's the easy bit. We are not politicians, so we don't have…

— Alun Wyn Jones

I admire rugged hard men who play rugby because it's something I would never contemplate.

— Chris Eubank Sr

Rugby is a game that's constant. If you are not growing with it, you get left behind.

— Owen Farrell

To a point, family does that and a couple of life experiences both positive and negative that have definitely altered my perception on rugby.…

— Alun Wyn Jones

I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could…

— Luke Evans

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

— Jamie Bamber

I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed…

— Brian O'Driscoll

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.

— Francois Hougaard

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

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't…

— Glenn Turner