80 Rugby League Quotes
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Famous Rugby League Quotes
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. — Sue Lawley
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
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. — Oscar Wilde
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
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous. — Chris Laidlaw
The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit. — Jean-Pierre Rives
Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. — Heyneke Meyer
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole. — Andrew Bogut
Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune. — Pierre Danos
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
Professional sports are something they can't control. — Troy Vincent
Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time. — Arnold J. Mandell
Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them — Paul Gascoigne
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. — Knute Rockne
Short Rugby League Quotes
- Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season. — Dan Gable
- Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
- Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like. — Jurgen Klopp
- Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
- We want to build this sport all over the world and it absolutely, positively works in the U.K. — Dana White
- Sports is human life in microcosm. — Howard Cosell
- Football is like life and I know life. — Rush Limbaugh
- Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game. — Queen Elizabeth II
- Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation. — Bob Ufer
- I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose. — Woody Hayes
Rugby League Image Quotes
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
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
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
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
I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat. — Ron Atkinson
People Writing About Rugby League
More Rugby League Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners. — Alan Cooper
League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules. — Adrian Hadley
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
It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league. — Jonathan Davis
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
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
The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us. — Dickie Jeeps
If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it. — Brett Morris
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
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 have more critics than Hitler. — Beau Ryan
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
The media character-assassinated me and perceived me as this monster. When you look at my record ... I jumped a taxi as a 21-year-old, which I'm sorry for, and I urinated twice in public. That's in 11 years of football. I've never assaulted women and never been done for drink driving. My conscience is clear. — Willie Mason
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
I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there. — Willie Mason
Ryles and I were looking around at the calibre of players in this side, you do think ... you are very lucky to be here. Especially with Jesus, Andrew Johns, we call him Jesus, isn't even here yet. — Willie Mason
This is a bit different to the Thursday breakfast I'm used to. It's usually just me and my dog. — Shane Tronc
St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13. — Darren Lockyer
I'm a great believer in what happens on the field should stay there. — John Hopoate
I did not think I would make the grade. — Clive Churchill
Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia? — Joe Galuvao
We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips. — Brett Morris
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 feel like I've been victimised. It's because of who I am. I've done my time for past mistakes, if it wasn't me there wouldn't be a reaction. — John Hopoate
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
I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to! — Jason Ryles
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
My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league. — Ryan Giggs
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
I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players. — Benji Marshall
Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed. — Willie Mason
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
Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious. — Keith Senior
Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start. — Keith Senior
He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far. — Thomas Leuluai
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
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
The World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played in. I guess it would be good to have more matches of such intensity but, trust me, our bodies would struggle if we were subjected to this every week. There is a limit to how much players can take. — Sam Tomkins
Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook. — Jamal Idris
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