Rugby Quotes:

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

- Adrian Hadley

topic: League, Unions, Rugby, Rugby League

The French are predictably unpredictable.

- Andrew Mehrtens

topic: Rugby, Unpredictable

I have more critics than Hitler.

- Beau Ryan

topic: League, Rugby, Critics, Rugby League

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

- Benji Marshall

topic: Player, League, Rugby, Rugby League

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

- Bill McLaren

topic: Ferrets, Rugby, Demented

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

- Bill McLaren

topic: Bags, Rugby, Weasels

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

topic: Play, Littles, Rugby, Blokes, Playing Rugby

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

- Bob Dwyer

topic: Winning, Rugby

Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

- Braith Anasta

topic: League, Rugby, Tricky, Rugby League

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

- Brett White

topic: League, Might, Rugby, Rugby League

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

- Carlos Slim

topic: Baseball, Football, Rugby, Baseball Love

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

- Charlie Bewley

topic: Inspiration, Snowboarding, Rugby, Playing Rugby

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

- Chris Laidlaw

source: Chris Laidlaw (1973). “Mud in Your Eye: A Worm's Eye View of the Changing World of Rugby”

topic: Beer, Rugby

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

- Cliff Morgan

topic: Serious, Rugby, Nonsense

I did not think I would make the grade.

- Clive Churchill

topic: Thinking, League, Rugby

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

- Colin Meads

topic: Wings, People, Rugby, Playing Rugby

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

- Damian Hopley

topic: Answers, England, Rugby, Jonah

We can change South Africa on the rugby field

- Danie Craven

topic: Fields, Rugby, South Africa

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

topic: Want, Rugby, Fitting, Not Fitting

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

- Darren Lockyer

topic: League, Rugby, Imagine, Canterbury, Rugby League

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

- David Campese

topic: Games, Likes, Rugby

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

- David Campese

topic: Years, Firsts, Rugby, Five Years

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

topic: Taken, Breathing, Rugby

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

- Dickie Jeeps

topic: League, Littles, Rugby, Rugby League

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

- Gareth Chilcott

source: 1993 On playing his last game of rugby for Bath.

topic: Rugby, Quiet, Pints

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

- Georgie Fame

topic: Player, Rugby, Youth

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

- Heyneke Meyer

topic: Sports, Dancing, Rugby, Contact Sports, Ballroom

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

topic: Player, Rugby, Injury, Samoa, Falklands

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Guy, Rugby

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

- Jamal Idris

topic: League, Rugby, Hopefully, Rugby League

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

- Jamie Bamber

topic: Country, Watches, Rugby

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

- Jason Ryles

topic: Play, League, Rugby, Rugby League

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

- Javier Bardem

topic: Japan, Spain, Rugby, Playing Rugby

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

- Javier Bardem

topic: Rugby, Retired

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

- John Hopoate

topic: League, Fields, Rugby, Rugby League

One moment of magic, or one big moment to capture the match.

- John Plumtree

topic: Magic, Rugby, Moments

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

source: "Jonah Lomu: Wing commander has seen the light". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

topic: Rugby, Surreal, Whole Life, Playing Rugby

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

- Jonah Lomu

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Rugby, Exciting, Welsh

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

- Jonny Wilkinson

topic: England, Rugby, Very Happy, Playing Rugby

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

- Josh Lewsey

topic: Reminiscing, Down And, Rugby

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

- Keith Senior

source: "Keith Senior wants Leeds Rhinos to launch Super League campaign not Crusaders". www.mirror.co.uk. January 24, 2010.

topic: League, Rugby, Rugby League

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

- Keith Senior

topic: League, Keds, Rugby, Rugby League

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

topic: Wish, Lions, Rugby

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

- Martin Offiah

topic: Eye, Hands, Rugby

I get too excited about football and rugby.

- Matthew Lewis

topic: Football, Rugby, Excited

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

- Murray Mexted

topic: Years, Rugby, Week, Afl

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

- Nick Easter

topic: Heart, Rugby, Bottom

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

topic: Years, Age, Rugby, Playing Rugby

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

- Norman Mair

topic: Wade, Sound, Rugby, Sheriffs, Lancashire

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Cities, Bully, Rugby, Playing Rugby

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

- Peter FitzSimons

topic: Running, Bleeding, Rugby, Propensity

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

topic: Sex, Hey, Rugby

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

- Pierre Danos

topic: Piano, Play, Rugby

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

- Ric Suggitt

topic: Eye, Trying, Rugby, Blindfolds

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

- Rob Andrew

topic: Clubs, Rugby

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

topic: Brother, Years, Rugby, Storage, 30th Birthday

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

topic: Play, Voice, Rugby

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

- Vernon Davis

topic: Play, Tone, Rugby, Playing Rugby

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

- Virginia Graham

topic: Rugby, Harder

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

- Willie Mason

topic: League, Rugby, Flogging, Rugby League

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

- Willie Mason

topic: League, Rugby, Bus, Rugby League

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Games, Gentleman, Rugby, Playing Rugby

South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone.

- Rudolph Straeuli

topic: Rugby, South, South Africa

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

topic: Player, Teeth, Rugby, Mead

With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.

- Mark Zupan

topic: Training, Rugby, Promotion

A game of rugby is a work of art!

- Danie Craven

source: "The Doctor knows best". "Sunday Times" Interview with Jani Allan, 1980s.

topic: Art, Games, Rugby

We're going to tear those boys apart.

- Will Carling

topic: Boys, Tears, Rugby