Rugby Quotes

It's basically the same, just darker.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

Your hands can't catch what your eyes can't see.

I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.

I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

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 whole lot of things to get there.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

A game of rugby is a work of art!

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.

You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that.

We can change South Africa on the rugby field

The French are predictably unpredictable.

We're going to tear those boys apart.

Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first.

I thought I would have a quiet pint ... and about 17 noisy ones.

It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.

Andy Ellis - the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago.

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.

Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.

I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.

Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.

It's definitely the hardest tackle I've taken in my life but I'm still breathing and that's a good sign.

The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.

Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.

You blindfold yourself and spin around for 10 times and then open your eyes and try to chase it down.

Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.

Good big blokes are better than good little blokes. Then again, good little blokes are better than dud big blokes. And dud big blokes should play something other than Rugby

On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

I have more critics than Hitler.

Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.

A rugby tour is like sex. When its good it's great, and when it's bad - hey! It's still pretty good!

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

I get too excited about football and rugby.

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

The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.