Rugby Quotes - Page 2

• The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter line.

  Nigel Starmer-Smith

  Three, Half, Lines

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• He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.

  Bill McLaren

  Ferrets, Demented

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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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• 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

  Wall, Hair, Firsts

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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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• 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, Injury

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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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• After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.

  Andrew Mehrtens

  Loss, World, Cups

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• Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.

  Bob Norster

  House, Rooms, Watches

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• Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Football, Strong, Mean

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• I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

  David Campese

  Years, Firsts, Millionaire

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• Andy Ellis - the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago.

  Murray Mexted

  Years, Afl, Week

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• If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.

  Will Carling

  Running, Games, Needs

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• The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

  Rob Andrew

  Clubs, Has Beens, Invaluable

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• He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.

  Nick Farr-Jones

  Player, Brain, Legs

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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, Should

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• The heart is willing, the head is willing but the body's had enough.

  Keith Wood

  Heart, Body, Had Enough

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• 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

  Taken, Breathing, Hardest

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• It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts

  Nick Faldo

  Attitude, Thinking, Doe

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• 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

  Years, Work Out, Trying

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

  Vernon Davis

  Play, Tone, Deaf

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• Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  Joe Theismann

  Funny, Sports, Football

  "Conrad Smith sees USA challenge in all black and white: it's about the win" by Alexander Bisley, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

  Alan Cooper

  Men, Rugby League, Clubs

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• League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.

  Adrian Hadley

  Rugby League, League, Unions

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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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