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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
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous. -- Chris Laidlaw
Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen. -- Winston Churchill
Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. -- Heyneke Meyer
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. -- Oscar Wilde
Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer. -- Chris Laidlaw
Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune. -- Pierre Danos
Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball? -- Peter Pook
The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles. -- Ernest Crawley
Rugby backs can be identified because they generally have clean jerseys and identifiable partings in their hair... come the revolution the backs will be the first to be lined up against the wall and shot for living parasitically off the work of others. -- Peter FitzSimons
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Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense. -- Cliff Morgan
Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher. -- Alexander Hanson
I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher. -- Alexander Hanson
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. -- Oscar Wilde
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: â??The French are predictably unpredictable. -- Andrew Mehrtens
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando. -- Martin Henderson
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
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I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball. -- Bill Murray
Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt. -- Franz Beckenbauer
About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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. -- Jonny Wilkinson
The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games. -- Alexander Hanson
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
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 still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead. -- Matthew Rhys
The French are predictably unpredictable. -- Andrew Mehrtens
Your hands can't catch what your eyes can't see. -- Martin Offiah
If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis. -- Pierre Berbizier
Andy Ellis - the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago. -- Murray Mexted
I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing. -- Colin Meads
This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass. -- Nigel Melville
I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago. -- David Campese
The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit. -- Jean-Pierre Rives
No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking. -- J.P.R. Williams
I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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
In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out why. -- Tasker Watkins
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
Gethin Jenkins is one of the best loose-head props in the world. He hits up to 40 rucks a game, makes at least 10 carries and even more tackles. Those are amazing statistics for a prop and he is a very intelligent rugby player. -- Warren Gatland
I think rugby is 80 per cent mental. -- Francois Hougaard
I tried to play rugby but was never very good. -- Ralph Fiennes
I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan. --
Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection. -- Mickey Rourke
If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league. -- Russell Crowe
Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' -- Henry Rollins
I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice. -- Tom Jones
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams. -- Hamish Bowles
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
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
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
I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in. -- Matthew Rhys
I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember. -- Jonny Wilkinson
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. -- Simon Hoggart
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
I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European. -- Rory Bremner
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 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
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
As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture. -- Mark Haddon
The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem. -- Hugh Jackman
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
I get too excited about football and rugby. -- Matthew Lewis
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. -- Sue Lawley
A game of rugby is a work of art! -- Danie Craven
We can change South Africa on the rugby field -- Danie Craven
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby. -- Carlos Slim
South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone. -- Rudolph Straeuli
It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby. -- Jonah Lomu
I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players. -- Benji Marshall
The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable. -- Rob Andrew
I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow. -- Javier Bardem
I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player. -- Kirsty Gallacher
God somehow makes sure that in international rugby nobody wins ALL the time! -- Bob Dwyer
I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists. -- Peter Jackson
Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all. -- Jonny Wilkinson
In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player. -- Georgie Fame
Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners. -- Alan Cooper
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I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand. -- Jamie Bamber
In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them -- Pierre Danos
The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat. -- Josh Lewsey
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan. -- Javier Bardem
There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking! -- Alex Wyllie
The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us. -- Dickie Jeeps
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They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003). -- Bernard Laporte
My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league. -- Ryan Giggs
It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league. -- Jonathan Davis
I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction. -- Luke Bracey
If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby. -- Will Carling
I think the main message is that world rugby needs New Zealand and New Zealand needs world rugby. -- Mike Miller
I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school. -- David Gilmour
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players. -- Lewis Pugh
Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan. -- Rory McIlroy
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players. -- Lewis Pugh
It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more! -- George MacPherson
I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration. -- Charlie Bewley
With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training. -- Mark Zupan
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.' -- Anthony Browne
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
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy. -- Jai Courtney
I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen. -- Jonny Wilkinson
Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added -- Gemma Hussey
A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport. -- Yoshiro Mori
As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.' -- Francois Hougaard
New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby. -- Josh Lewsey
The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore. -- Jai Courtney
I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby. -- Jim Glennon
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 basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog. -- Ben Mendelsohn
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
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
My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from. -- Filo Tiatia
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
School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons. -- Gordon Pirie
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
Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didnt just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there. -- Jonah Lomu
To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team. -- Jonny Wilkinson

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