Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that. — Joe Theismann
For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together. — Eamon de Valera
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. — Oscar Wilde
The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit. — Jean-Pierre Rives
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. — Sue Lawley
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous. — Chris Laidlaw
Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune. — Pierre Danos
Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. — Heyneke Meyer
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
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. — Lionel Messi
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks. — Roger Bannister
Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. — Gene Tunney
Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp. — Brian Bosworth
Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed. — Phil Esposito
I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle. — Randy Moss
Short Playing Rugby Quotes
Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best. — J. J. Watt
Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them — Paul Gascoigne
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like. — Jurgen Klopp
Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season. — Dan Gable
Growing up, I played football and was always one of the best on the team. — Jake Paul
I love football, football is my life. — Wayne Rooney
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game. — Hayden Fry
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. — Knute Rockne
Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances. — Roger Bannister
Playing Rugby Image Quotes
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
Rugby Player Quotes
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
You guys line up alphabetically by height. — Bill Peterson
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
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot. — Colin Welland
You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that. — Murray Mexted
He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him. — Nick Farr-Jones
Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.
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
I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward. — Paul Randall
I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction! — John Newman
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
Rugby Quotes
I don’t believe in magic. I believe in hard work. — Richie McCaw
I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field. — Larry Gelwix
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. — David Acfield
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch
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
It's basically the same, just darker. — Alan Kulwicki
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. — Winston Bennett
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes difference.
The heart is willing, the head is willing but the body's had enough. — Keith Wood
Your hands can't catch what your eyes can't see. — Martin Offiah
I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat. — Ron Atkinson
I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing. — Colin Meads
Playing Sports Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis
I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball. — Mickey Mantle
When you see a good move, look for a better one. — Emanuel Lasker
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable. — April Ross
People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play and listen to broadcasters talking about it. The kind of entire ecosystem we see around other sports and forms of entertainment has formed around games as well. — Jensen Huang
Playing Cricket Quotes
I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career. — Satya Nadella
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude. — Shane Warne
When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust. — Donald Bradman
I play cricket. I’m a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket. — Ellyse Perry
Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket — Virender Sehwag
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. — Ian Botham
I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's — Sachin Tendulkar
I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not. — Keith Miller
Dravid Could play attacking cricket like me but i could never play like him — Chris Gayle
I don't feel it is right that I'm playing knowing that I'm not 100% and I cannot currently operate at the level I have done in the past. My priority now is to take a break from cricket so that I can focus on my recovery. — Jonathan Trott
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
Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward. — Peter Cook
Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby, I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there. — Jonah Lomu
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
Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes. You have the superstars and the fast guys who score the tries, but you also need the workhorses and the people who play all the other roles. Unless they all work together as a team then it's really going to affect the performance. Everyone's got to rely on everyone else. — Warren Gatland
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan. — Javier Bardem
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. — Oscar Wilde
Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen. — Winston Churchill
I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family. — Barry Pepper
I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel. — Jonny Wilkinson
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
I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen. — Jonny Wilkinson
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
I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf. — Vernon Davis
If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis. — Pierre Berbizier
It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league. — Jonathan Davis
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
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
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
Always have a plan B and C, because if it doesn't work out there are other things you can focus on. It's important to have a balance to your life, regardless of what you're doing. I've been playing at this level for a long time, but I've got interests outside of rugby, like my family and my children. They keep me sane. — Filo Tiatia
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
I wasn’t, you know, Mr Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing. — Iwan Rheon
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
I've got a good Barbarians squad including Australian backs who have played together. Gavin Henson would make a fool of himself if he was way off the pace. Not having made a tackle or played a game for so long beforehand would be a disadvantage. It would be ideal if he has a couple of games first, but who with? — Nick Mallett
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
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
I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to! — Jason Ryles
While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence or be abusive to others, especially towards his partner and family. I am proud to support the Women's Aid Real Man campaign. — Danny Care
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin. — Roger Bannister
My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level. — Clint Eastwood
My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league. — Ryan Giggs
And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs. — Jai Courtney
I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school. — David Gilmour
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
I was an ambassador for Betway during the Rugby World Cup and at the moment I'm working as an ambassador for Artemis Investment Management. I also organised the first Rugby Aid in 2015. We had celebrities playing rugby against former England team players and raised a ton of money for Rugby For Heroes [a charity for former servicemen and women]. Only one celeb got crunched quite badly - Jaime Laing from Made in Chelsea ended up with cracked ribs. — Mike Tindall
In 2011 I stopped playing rugby for England so during the Six Nations, which is on during February and March, I was able to grab a week's skiing. But I still had to take it pretty easy because I didn't want to get injured while I was playing for Gloucester. In 2013, when I retired fully from rugby, I finally had the chance to go a couple of times a season. — Mike Tindall
I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that. — Richard Masur
eah, you don't get a lot of meatheads doing improvised theater to begin with, and that's always been my thing. I talk about the nerd/meathead dichotomy on my podcast a lot, but there was a time when I was doing UCB full-time and playing men's league rugby in New York City, and I was like the funniest, artsiest rugby player, and the bro-iest improv comedian. I've always managed to sort of be in both sides. — Jon Gabrus
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