Quotes About Rugby

#1. William had played [rugby] at Eton when it first became popular, and now he only spoke of it in a reverent tone he normally saved only for women and rifles. . . . .
[in contrast] Cricket had rules: one was not allowed to stamp on the head of another player and pass it off as enthusiasm.

Natasha Pulley

#2. 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.

Ben Hannant

#3. Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

Winston Churchill

#4. I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

Ralph Fiennes

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

Bill McLaren

#6. I think the main message is that world rugby needs New Zealand and New Zealand needs world rugby.

Mike Miller

#7. For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

Hamish Bowles

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

Jason Ryles

#9. Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

Tanc Sade

#10. In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!

Jacques Rogge

#11. A saint? Tanner Stone was the anti-Christ.

Amy Andrews

#12. I get too excited about football and rugby.

Matthew Lewis

#13. I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.

Brian O'Driscoll

#14. Rugby backs can be identified because they generally have clean jerseys and identifiable partings in their hair ... come the revolution the backs will be the first to be lined up against the wall and shot for living parasitically off the work of others.

Peter FitzSimons

#15. Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

Nick Saban

#16. I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.

Jim Glennon

#17. American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

Sue Lawley

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

Gareth Chilcott

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

Adrian Hadley

#20. 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.

Gareth Widdop

#21. One of the highlights of my career was playing first class rugby for my province, which was Wellington. Another highlight was playing first class rugby with my brothers. Not many brothers get to do that. I can't explain what it felt like to be out there, playing with them. It was a great feeling.

Filo Tiatia

#22. He was stretched out like he was her own personal playground and she wanted to ride on his equipment for a bit longer.

Amy Andrews

#23. The man looked hot in his jersey, sexy as hell in a pair of
jeans and goddamn mouth-watering in nothing but his tan. In a business suit? He looked utterly fuckable.

Amy Andrews

#24. He hadn't struck her as particularly religious unless she counted the number of times he'd called out to Jesus when he'd been deep inside her.

Amy Andrews

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

Norman Mair

#26. You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsibility; but here one has only just to take care of oneself, and keep out of scrapes; and that's what I never could do.

Thomas Hughes

#27. There's ego in all of us rugby players.

Brian O'Driscoll

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

Rudolph Straeuli

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

Ric Suggitt

#30. The car was some kind of Porsche and the door stood open and beckoning, like a gold embossed invitation to sin
If she could survive a ride with angel-lips in his penis car then surely she'd be immune to him in any situation?

Amy Andrews

#31. 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

#32. Hey, this was rugby, not that daft game with the round ball.

J.L. Merrow

#33. You're a gambling man, right? Or do you only bet on frivolous things like poker and fucking women?

Amy Andrews

#34. If you think I haven't been fantasising about your mouth around my cock, then you're crazy

Amy Andrews

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

Benji Marshall

#36. I was always big. I was kind of around this size, like, since I went into high school. I played rugby and stuff like that. So, people, you know, would screw with me, but I never got into, like, a real fight or anything like that.

Seth Rogen

#37. Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all.

Jonny Wilkinson

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

Shane Tronc

#39. 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.

Adrian Morley

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

Colin Meads

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

Andrew Johns

#42. It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!

George MacPherson

#43. 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.

Brett Finch

#44. Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.

Brian O'Driscoll

#45. My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

Gordon Brown

#46. I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first.

Dan Carter

#47. The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure who they are grabbing round the knees, but they're having a lot of fun doing it.

Simon Hoggart

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

Craig Coleman

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

Bob Dwyer

#50. 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

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

Jonah Lomu

#52. I tackle guys three times your size for a living. I can handle whatever you throw at me.

Amy Andrews

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

Allison Pearson

#54. Seriously, would you want some strange dude with
a scalpel down near your lady parts?"

She shuddered. "I can think of better uses for a dude
down near my lady parts.

Amy Andrews

#55. I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.

Douglas Booth

#56. I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.

James Spithill

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

Brett Morris

#58. He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too.

S.A. Tawks

#59. Tanner Stone was way too sure of himself. Too many women had been letting him have it all his own way.

Amy Andrews

#60. I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game.

Luke Evans

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

Peter FitzSimons

#62. Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

Chris Laidlaw

#63. It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.

Larry Gelwix

#64. It's not tiddlywinks now, is it?..... NZ Rugby Legend

Tana Umaga

#65. I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

Barack Obama

#66. After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable.

Andrew Mehrtens

#67. 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.

Robbie Kearns

#68. For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.

Jonny Wilkinson

#69. Nev was the man in the parlor and the painter in his studio, the banker and the rugby player. The boyfriend who bought her prawn crisps and rubbed her back when she cried. The tender lover. The caged beast who came out to play when they got naked together. He could be any of them.

Ruthie Knox

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

Brett Morris

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

Rob Andrew

#72. School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

Gordon Pirie

#73. This was screwing. One hundred percent pissed-off, nail-raking, neck-biting, wall-fucking screwing.

Amy Andrews

#74. 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.

Jai Courtney

#75. 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!

Dally Messenger

#76. Seriously. A man categorically devised the high heal and he did it in an attempt to make it easier for you dudes to rugby tackle us womenfolk to the ground and haul us back to your beds.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#77. All out friends had gone to the rugby house for a party, but we stayed in together for a night of pizza and wine on the couch of my town house.

Matthew Quick

#78. I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.

George Vecsey

#79. 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.

Terry Hill

#80. If I'd known a sixty-niner was the way to your heart I would have done it weeks ago.

Amy Andrews

#81. I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

Rory Bremner

#82. I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

Rupert Giles

#83. Sex was a happiness transaction. And rugby had given Linc the means to feel very happy, very often.

Amy Andrews

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

Brian O'Driscoll

#85. How dare he look so freaking smug like he'd just ticked an item off a sex list? Going down on Matilda. Check.

Amy Andrews

#86. 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.

Michael Greenfield

#87. I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.

Francois Hougaard

#88. Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

Rory McIlroy

#89. 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.

Jake Friend

#90. Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

Chris Laidlaw

#91. Dexter Blake liked a woman with some junk in her trunk. And the tall, curvy chick on the sidelines was packing a whole lot of booty.

She had one of those itty-bitty waists, too. And her cups floweth'd over.

Staring at her chest was practically a religious experience.

Amy Andrews

#92. I have some very special guests tonight, and I would like to give a big welcome to the Wayne State men and women's rugby team for coming to the game tonight and to be on my TV Show

Mark Cuban

#93. A game of rugby is a work of art!

Danie Craven

#94. I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

Brian O'Driscoll

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

Jamie Bamber

#96. 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

#97. I've been truly overwhelmed by the good luck messages I have received from the rugby world and the fantastic support I've had from my friends, family, my team-mates and staff at Cardiff Blues and the WRU throughout my treatment. It has meant a huge amount to me.

Matthew Rees

#98. 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.

Paul Sculthorpe

#99. He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.

Ryan Giggs

#100. You treated me like a fool and you played with my heart, like it was one of your damn footballs.

Amy Andrews