Rugby Quotes

“My belief is if you watch five games of rugby league, you'll be committed to it for life, because there is no better sport to watch.”

“I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.”

“The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure who they are grabbing round the knees, but they're having a lot of fun doing it.”

“I was training my whole younger life to be a sportsman. Rugby was my main thing.”

“I was an outside half in rugby, and in cricket I used to open the bowling. I played for Welsh schools at cricket but gave it up when it clashed with athletics.”

“I was in the football, rugby, cricket and hockey teams at school; bit of squash. Tennis obviously.”

“I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.”

“The man ticked all of her boxes. Compassionate, kind, thoughtful. But he was alpha as fuck on a rugby field. And in the bedroom. Or on a balcony. Or in front of a mirror. Or up against a wall. She really should walk away. Now. Right now. Hell, she should run.”

“It was the kind of mouth that should only be found on angels. Chick angels.”

“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.”

“Going to a final and winning is the best thing in life, and it makes rugby no longer a job. It makes it fun.”

“Probably just as well. Maybe with all that testosterone walking out the door, the insane urge to hump Lincoln Quinn’s leg would walk right out as well. Because that was exactly how she felt every time she looked at him.Like she was in heat.Within minutes, the restaurant had emptied out to only a few non-team wedding guests. Her nemesis was nowhere to be seen, and Em congratulated herself on her self-control as she eased off the bar stool.Embarrassing leg-humping avoided—bravo!”

“For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.”

“We're removal men. It's hard labour. I've come to the conclusion being a forward is probably the worst thing in rugby. Looking at backs, they play kick and laugh, run and clap and we get absolutely flogged.”

“I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.”

“You're not going to please everyone, but then, it's not about pleasing people: it's about winning rugby games.”

“Mum used to take us to Breach Candy on the number 63 bus. After school, we'd swim, ride horses, play rugby.”

“I have been a rugby league fan all my life - I think it's an absolutely fantastic sport - so it is a real honour to be asked to be RFL president.”

“People think of rugby players as being tough but it's another thing to stand in front of someone and get kicked, punched, taken down. In rugby you have two contact sessions a week and you play a game on the weekend.”

“I didn't fulfil my rugby potential.”