Quotes About Rugby League

#1. 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

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

Jason Ryles

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

Adrian Hadley

#4. 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

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

Benji Marshall

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

Shane Tronc

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Brett Morris

#12. 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

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

Brett Morris

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.

Brett Finch

#20. It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.

Glenn Morrison

#21. My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.

Ryan Giggs

#22. As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.

Gareth Ellis

#23. If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.

Russell Crowe

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

Jamal Idris

#25. I did not think I would make the grade.

Clive Churchill

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

Dickie Jeeps

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

John Hopoate

#28. Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

Braith Anasta

#29. I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.

Ben Mendelsohn

#30. It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

Jonathan Davis

#31. I lost my front tooth in rugby league when a fat guy from Bellevue Hill kicked me in the face as I got up from a tackle to mark him. I made this decision not to cap the tooth because I thought it was false. But I didn't make any movies as a teenager, and I had a very hard time with girls and stuff.

Russell Crowe

#32. It's an exciting place to go, really. The rain, the drizzle, the cold, the depressing people, the smokes in the bath ... I don't know of anyone who has been to Blackpool and enjoyed it.

Ian Hindmarsh

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

Darren Lockyer

#34. In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

Colin Welland

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

Brett White

#36. It was bad enough being black...How much lower down the social scale could one go than to be seen as a black, uneducated rugby league player.

Cec Thompson

#37. This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.

Benji Marshall

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

Keith Senior

#39. I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

Graham Lowe

#40. Obviously a lot has gone on, and I feel I am different person, I haven't had a beer since New Year's, which is pretty big for me.

Todd Carney

#41. His body is changing. He will strip down and start getting even bigger and stronger over the next few seasons and, seriously, how scary is that? He will be unstoppable. He has just got to realise how good he is and what he can do in the game if he puts his mind to it.

Wendell Sailor

#42. Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Alan Cooper

#43. It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

Melina Marchetta

#44. This is God's way of saying you've achieved so much, here's your chance to play against the world's best players. There's got to be some reason behind it. It has to be God. It's been created because of Him and the belief the boys have in Him.

Jarryd Hayne

#45. Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia?

Joe Galuvao

#46. Things that rock: all the different stories people come up with - Kindle text to speech while driving - kind hearted people - oh, and the Manly Sea Eagles (Aussie rugby league)!!

G.S. Bailey

#47. Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.

Cooper Cronk

#48. He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far.

Thomas Leuluai

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

Willie Mason

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

Willie Mason

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

Keith Senior

#52. I have more critics than Hitler.

Beau Ryan

#53. I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

Ryan Giggs