Playing Rugby Quotes

• Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cities, Bully, Funny Sports

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• Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Football, Games, Gentleman

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• 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

  Inspirational, Angel, Thinking

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• It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

  Jonathan Davis

  Rugby League, Years, Firsts

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• 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

  Rugby League, Games, Play

  "Quotes of the Week". www.independent.co.uk. October 20, 1995.

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• 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

  Years, Age, Rugby

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• I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

  Colin Meads

  Wings, People, Rugby

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• I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.

  Vernon Davis

  Play, Tone, Rugby

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• If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.

  Pierre Berbizier

  Play, Tennis, Tables

  "Football's most hyperbolic week ever" by Harry Pearson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.

  Pierre Danos

  Player, Piano, Tunes

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• 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

  Sports, Teamwork, School

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

  Charlie Bewley

  Inspiration, Snowboarding, Rugby

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• 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

  Play, Littles, Rugby

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• 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

  Life, Baby, Rugby League

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• 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

  Inspirational, School, Player

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• Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

  Winston Churchill

  Games, Gentleman, Rugby

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• I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

  Javier Bardem

  Japan, Spain, Rugby

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• 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

  Rugby, Surreal, Whole Life

  "Jonah Lomu: Wing commander has seen the light". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• 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

  Team, School, Ignorance

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• Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.

  Paul Murray

  Fall, Opportunity, Boys

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• I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.

  Douglas Booth

  Teenage, Thinking, Years

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• 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

  Real, Men, Support

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• I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

  Roger Bannister

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• 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

  Soccer, Thinking, Australia

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Couple, Able, England

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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