Rugby Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Games, Balls, Oval

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• Your hands can't catch what your eyes can't see.

  Martin Offiah

  Eye, Hands

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• Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

  Alexander Hanson

  Football, Unions, Fans

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• 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

  Ideas, Imagination, Lines

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• 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

  Athletic, World, May

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• Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

  Chris Laidlaw

  Summer, Persistence, May

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

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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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• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ignorance, Empathy, Apathy

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• Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.

  Bill McLaren

  Bags, Weasels, Cunning

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• My goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down.

  Bill McLaren

  Snow, Balls, Gone

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• I don’t believe in magic. I believe in hard work.

  Richie McCaw

  Work, Believe, Magic

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• I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field.

  Larry Gelwix

  Motivational, Strength, Being Strong

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• Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes. You have the superstars and the fast guys who score the tries, but you also need the workhorses and the people who play all the other roles. Unless they all work together as a team then it's really going to affect the performance. Everyone's got to rely on everyone else.

  Warren Gatland

  Team, Games, Play

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!

  George MacPherson

  Games, Long, Matter

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• 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

  Brother, Years, 30th Birthday

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• There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!

  Alex Wyllie

  Excuse You, Two, Missing

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• For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

  Eamon de Valera

  Football, Men, Games

  "Judging Dev : A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon De Valera" by Royal Irish Academy, 2007.

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• I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

  John Newman

  Player, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Head coach of the England team demands management skills that Brian does not have. We had a head coach who wanted one thing, other coaches who wanted other things. The players hadn't a clue what was going on. Somehow we'd managed to turn our World Cup campaign into a Monty Python sketch - called The Life of Brian.

  Lawrence Dallaglio

  Team, Player, Python

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• In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

  Georgie Fame

  Player, Youth

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• Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.

  Peter Pook

  Balls, Oval, Englishmen

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• Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Golf, Fans

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.

  Ryan Giggs

  Dad, Rugby League, Watches

  "When Esquire met Ryan Giggs". www.esquire.co.uk. February 15, 2010.

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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 know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

  Morgan Freeman

  Basketball, Soccer, Baseball

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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