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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• Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

  Chris Laidlaw

  Football, Beer, American Football

  Chris Laidlaw (1973). “Mud in Your Eye: A Worm's Eye View of the Changing World of Rugby”

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• Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

  Heyneke Meyer

  Sports, Dancing, Contact

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• Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

  Winston Churchill

  Games, Gentleman, Playing Rugby

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• A game of rugby is a work of art!

  Danie Craven

  Art, Games, Works Of Art

  "The Doctor knows best". "Sunday Times" Interview with Jani Allan, 1980s.

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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, Player, Daylight

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• The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.

  Virginia Graham

  Harder, Seats

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• The French are predictably unpredictable.

  Andrew Mehrtens

  Unpredictable

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• It's basically the same, just darker.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Nascar Racing, Afl, Funny Racing

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• This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass.

  Nigel Melville

  Team, Looks, Paper

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• 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

  Inspirational, Sports, Japan

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• You guys line up alphabetically by height.

  Bill Peterson

  Sports, Football, Guy

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• 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

  Player, Thinking, Hammers

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• I remember coming back from training one day and Simon Poidevin was talking to a priest. I thought...this was going to be some rough encounter because there's Poido getting the last rites before the test's even started

  Phil Kearns

  Talking, Training, One Day

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• You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that.

  Murray Mexted

  Sports, Player, Funny Sports

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• Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.

  Peter FitzSimons

  Running, Bleeding, Propensity

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• Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.

  Tom O'Reilly

  Player, Teeth, Kind

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• 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

  Football, Men, Differences

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• A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.

  Philip Toynbee

  Car, Generations, Bombs

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• The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms.

  Vivian Jenkins

  Islands, Lines, May

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• Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

  Norman Mair

  Sound, Wade, Lancashire

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• 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

  World, Lasts, Cups

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• If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week.

  Bill Beaumont

  Thinking, Next Week, Might

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• It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.

  Jonah Lomu

  Inspirational, Exciting, Welsh

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

  Damian Hopley

  Answers, England, Jonah

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