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
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. — Sue Lawley
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
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
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
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. — Knute Rockne
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard
Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like. — Jurgen Klopp
Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season. — Dan Gable
Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. — Joe Namath
Short 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
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
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
You guys line up alphabetically by height. — Bill Peterson
Good Rugby Quotes
This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass. — Nigel Melville
My goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down. — Bill McLaren
It's definitely the hardest tackle I've taken in my life but I'm still breathing and that's a good sign. — Derick Hougaard
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
A rugby tour is like sex. When its good it's great, and when it's bad - hey! It's still pretty good! — Peter FitzSimons
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
When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law. — Daniel Cudmore
Playing Rugby Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rugby League Quotes
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
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
I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care. — Frank Layden
I have lost three semi-finals at Newlands. I was hoping that last year would be a lucky number three. It was close, but we could not make it. — Schalk Burger
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour. — Alan Lewis
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
A game of rugby is a work of art! — Danie Craven
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby. — Carlos Slim
Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense. — Cliff Morgan
He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe. — Bill McLaren
You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it. — Phil Kearns
You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle. — Bill Peterson
In an environment where everybody's jersey is up for grabs, like what Joe Schmidt is currently doing with Ireland in rugby, a massive competitive environment is created every night at training, every day in the gym and every day, believe it or not, in the tactical computer room. — Brian Cody
We're going to tear those boys apart. — Will Carling
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