Quotes About Rugby

It doesn't matter if you've got the best team in the world, you can't play rugby on your own try-line.

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

I don't think you need to go global rugby to save the Lions, but I think you need to go global rugby to save rugby and not lose things like the Lions.

I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.

There will be nothing better than playing international rugby. It's a dream come true.

I never had a concussion playing rugby.

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 to delve too much into that.

I really want to remain involved in rugby. I want to continue and have an influence on the game.

I take a laid-back approach to a lot of things in life and, at the end of the day, rugby's just a game.

If I hadn't had the rugby field to get rid of my aggression I would have been locked up a long time ago.

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

A lot of people make the error of thinking rugby is going to last forever and they need to quickly discover that that isn't the case.

I tried sports, but I ended up being a paramedic. There was to be no rugby for me. Believe me, I did try, but I fell short. Rugby is tough, man.

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

Wales are obviously a team that like to play rugby in your half and put as many people as possible in the front line and get off the line and put pressure on you.

When I was 11 my school held a sports day near Crystal Palace. We were told we were going to play a rugby match. The ball was eventually passed to me and I was obviously expected to run with it. I took one look at all these players charging towards me, placed the ball on the ground and walked off the pitch.

After my second film, 'Simhadri,' which was a very big hit, I made 'Sye,' a small college movie with a rugby union backdrop.

Growing up at school I played a lot of fly-half and a lot of scrum-half, I thought I had a good boot but never really used it as much as I do now.

I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember.

This questioning is as applicable to business as it is to rugby. No one person has all the answers, but asking questions challenges the status quo, helps connect with core values and beliefs, and is a catalyst for individual improvement. After all, the better the questions we ask, the better the answers we get.

In rugby I think it is good to have a bit of a persona, a bit of a character because we are one of the last things that isn't necessarily controlled.

I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.