Rugby famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.
-- Adrian Hadley -
The French are predictably unpredictable.
-- Andrew Mehrtens -
I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.
-- Benji Marshall -
He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.
-- Bill McLaren -
Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.
-- Bill McLaren -
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
-- Bob Dwyer -
God somehow makes sure that in international rugby nobody wins ALL the time!
-- Bob Dwyer -
Me and Tricky like playing with each other.
-- Braith Anasta -
If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.
-- Brett Morris -
I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.
-- Brett White -
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
-- Carlos Slim -
I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.
-- Charlie Bewley -
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.
-- Chris Laidlaw -
Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.
-- Cliff Morgan -
I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.
-- Colin Meads -
Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.
-- Damian Hopley -
We can change South Africa on the rugby field
-- Danie Craven -
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.
-- Danny Cipriani -
St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.
-- Darren Lockyer -
Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.
-- David Campese -
I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.
-- David Campese -
It's definitely the hardest tackle I've taken in my life but I'm still breathing and that's a good sign.
-- Derick Hougaard -
The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us.
-- Dickie Jeeps -
I thought I would have a quiet pint ... and about 17 noisy ones.
-- Gareth Chilcott -
In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.
-- Georgie Fame -
Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.
-- Heyneke Meyer -
On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.
-- Jack Rowell -
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
-- Jai Courtney -
Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook.
-- Jamal Idris -
I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.
-- Jamie Bamber -
I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!
-- Jason Ryles -
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
-- Javier Bardem -
I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.
-- Javier Bardem -
I'm a great believer in what happens on the field should stay there.
-- John Hopoate -
One moment of magic, or one big moment to capture the match.
-- John Plumtree -
Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didnt just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.
-- Jonah Lomu -
It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
-- Jonah Lomu -
I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.
-- Jonny Wilkinson -
The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.
-- Josh Lewsey -
Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start.
-- Keith Senior -
Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.
-- Keith Senior -
So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!
-- Luke Watson -
Your hands can't catch what your eyes can't see.
-- Martin Offiah -
I get too excited about football and rugby.
-- Matthew Lewis -
Andy Ellis - the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago.
-- Murray Mexted -
I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.
-- Nick Easter -
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.
-- Nigel Melville -
Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.
-- Norman Mair -
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.
-- Peter FitzSimons -
A rugby tour is like sex. When its good it's great, and when it's bad - hey! It's still pretty good!
-- Peter FitzSimons -
In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them
-- Pierre Danos -
You blindfold yourself and spin around for 10 times and then open your eyes and try to chase it down.
-- Ric Suggitt -
The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.
-- Rob Andrew -
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.
-- Ryan Reynolds -
I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.
-- Tom Jones -
I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.
-- Vernon Davis -
The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.
-- Virginia Graham -
I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.
-- Willie Mason -
Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.
-- Willie Mason -
Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.
-- Winston Churchill -
South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone.
-- Rudolph Straeuli -
Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.
-- Tom O'Reilly -
With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.
-- Mark Zupan
