Rugby League Quotes

In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

This is God's way of saying you've achieved so much, here's your chance to play against the world's best players. There's got to be some reason behind it. It has to be God. It's been created because of Him and the belief the boys have in Him.

It's an exciting place to go, really. The rain, the drizzle, the cold, the depressing people, the smokes in the bath ... I don't know of anyone who has been to Blackpool and enjoyed it.

Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.

League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us.

If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.

I have more critics than Hitler.

This is a bit different to the Thursday breakfast I'm used to. It's usually just me and my dog.

I did not think I would make the grade.

Obviously a lot has gone on, and I feel I am different person, I haven't had a beer since New Year's, which is pretty big for me.

St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.

His body is changing. He will strip down and start getting even bigger and stronger over the next few seasons and, seriously, how scary is that? He will be unstoppable. He has just got to realise how good he is and what he can do in the game if he puts his mind to it.

As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.

I'm a great believer in what happens on the field should stay there.

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

We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips.

I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia?

It's going to be tough but I think I was more nervous about playing NRL than I will be playing this match simply because I've got Billy Slater in front of me and there were a lot of expectations.

Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak.

We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it . . . and I'd hate to see it go.

My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want.

The World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played in. I guess it would be good to have more matches of such intensity but, trust me, our bodies would struggle if we were subjected to this every week. There is a limit to how much players can take.

I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.

Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook.

Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

I thought you could play ... You've got nothing. Where's the big hair? I brought my scissors today so I could cut the hair. You've got nothing.

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.

Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It's vital that we play with confidence and take the strength and competition of the engage Super League in to the Four Nations.

The quality of players - the likes of Sam Tomkins, Rangi Chase and Lee Briers - bring an X-factor to the game. It's highly entertaining and it's something probably that the Australian game lacks a bit.

Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start.

We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous year. We got nothing and were lucky to get home!

As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.

He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far.

Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.

Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.

It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.