Quotes About Rugby

I know my dad would have loved me to have played rugby. He was a No. 8. I started off playing centre and ended up playing at the back of the scrum, No. 8 as well, just picking it up and running with it.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

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

You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

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

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

There was no way I was going to end up in the scrum when I came to rugby - you know, waste my pretty looks.

My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.

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 body, so at school, I was encouraged to play football, and that's where everything started.

The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.

I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily.

I think a global season, moving it a bit towards summer, can only be a good thing from a playing and commercial point of view, but it would take a massive shift, and I do not know if it would happen in my career.

Boxing is the more dangerous activity from the rugby player's and the general public's point of view, but to me rugby is far more dangerous so I would prefer my sons to box. I love my children too much and do not want to watch them getting hurt. This is in no way intended as a criticism of rugby, which I consider to be a fantastic sport.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.

Mum used to take us to Breach Candy on the number 63 bus. After school, we'd swim, ride horses, play rugby.

As far as exercise, I play a lot of lacrosse and rugby, and I'm an avid distance swimmer. Nope, none of that is true. I do walk a lot, though.

I spent my time chasing rucks and never managing to hit any, so I quickly switched out to the backs.

She laughed now, and the sound of it--clear as a bell, dirty as a rugby match--turned heads all along their row.

Players want to play a lot of rugby. We're walking contradictions at times in that we want to play a lot of rugby, but we don't want to play too much rugby, and we want to be available for all the big games, yet there are times when you have to sacrifice that because of game limits.

I've lost count of the times I've been asked what I do for a living. When I say rugby people say: 'Yes, but what's your other job?'

It's only when you leave the rugby bubble that you understand that negative criticism is not personal, it's reality because we don't always get everything right.