Rugby World Cup Sayings

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

Andrew Mehrtens

#2. They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

Bernard Laporte

#3. The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the main reason why the Rugby World Cup, the Pacific islands excepted, was so desperately white, the Springboks included.

Martin Jacques

#4. Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace what is different about me and applaud my efforts to become? Can I just be human
strong an vibrant some days, weak and frail on others? ... Will you love me even when I disappoint you? ...

Angela Thomas

#5. Sometimes it takes a two-by-four across your head to realize what you want isn't what you'll end up with if you get it.

Kim Harrison

#6. Or maybe it's life that is the infection: a feverish dream, a hallucination of feelings. Death is purification, a cleansing, a cure.

Lauren Oliver

#7. 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

#8. It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.

Prince William

#9. Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

Nellie L. McClung

#10. To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness.

Robert Hobson

#11. Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

Linda Howard

#12. 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

#13. Milk is a really important part of my diet. For London, I had to be in the best shape of my life, and having milk every day played a part in that.

Jade Jones