Rugby Player Quotes

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

Brian O'Driscoll

#2. 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

#3. I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

Kirsty Gallacher

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

Georgie Fame

#5. I could've been a professional rugby player... but then I saw a new Gaunt's Ghosts book come out...

John Charles Scott

#6. I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.

Brian O'Driscoll

#7. I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

Peter Jackson

#8. I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.

Jason O'Mara

#9. I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

Luke Bracey

#10. Gethin Jenkins is one of the best loose-head props in the world. He hits up to 40 rucks a game, makes at least 10 carries and even more tackles. Those are amazing statistics for a prop and he is a very intelligent rugby player.

Warren Gatland

#11. Utu
Maori revenge. 'Do everything well, boy. Do it better than them. Be a better rugby player, better at your job. Outshine them everywhere. Tramp on their pride. Go far, and leave them sniveling in your dust.

Kris Pearson

#12. The width of neck and shoulder suggested a rugby player, the broken nose confirmed it. Which shows just how wrong you can be as he never played the game in his life.

Spike Milligan

#13. You come from the NRL and it's a forwards-dominated game, I think, at the moment. You get three sets and kick and chase. But at Warrington it couldn't be more opposite. They'll have a crack from anywhere and it's the type of style you want to play as a rugby player.

Joel Monaghan

#14. I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality.

Tanc Sade

#15. 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

#16. The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

George Gregan

#17. 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

#18. You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that.

Murray Mexted

#19. 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

#20. I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'

Anthony Browne

#21. 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

#22. This was Linc at his most elemental. This was cave man stuff. Potently male. Potently virile. Hot. As. Fuck.

Amy Andrews

#23. Why do men always have such high opinions of their cock?

Amy Andrews

#24. Linc had always been a leg man. Thankfully hers made up for her caustic tongue and armour plated panties

Amy Andrews

#25. 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

#26. He'd gone too far. He didn't usually talk to women so frankly. Not with them both fully clothed anyway.

Amy Andrews

#27. Talk to me when your nuts are so blue they look like something you can hang on a Christmas tree.

Amy Andrews

#28. 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

#29. Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

Pierre Danos

#30. It was the kind of mouth that should only be found on angels. Chick angels.

Amy Andrews

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

Amy Andrews

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

Amy Andrews

#33. 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

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

Benji Marshall

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

Amy Andrews

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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