Rugby Quotes - Page 5

• Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

  Cliff Morgan

  Serious, Nonsense

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• If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.

  Brett Morris

  Rugby League, Harlem, Globetrotters

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• Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.

  Anton Oliver

  Nice, Men, Land

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• I have lost three semi-finals at Newlands. I was hoping that last year would be a lucky number three. It was close, but we could not make it.

  Schalk Burger

  Years, Numbers, Lasts

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• 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

  Country, Phones, Play

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• The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. But the thing I didn’t know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you’re wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don’t land right.

  Mickey Rourke

  Sports, Hurt, Wrestling

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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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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• Always have a plan B and C, because if it doesn't work out there are other things you can focus on. It's important to have a balance to your life, regardless of what you're doing. I've been playing at this level for a long time, but I've got interests outside of rugby, like my family and my children. They keep me sane.

  Filo Tiatia

  Children, Long, Work Out

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• One of the highlights of my career was playing first class rugby for my province, which was Wellington. Another highlight was playing first class rugby with my brothers. Not many brothers get to do that. I can't explain what it felt like to be out there, playing with them. It was a great feeling.

  Filo Tiatia

  Brother, Class, Careers

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.

  Nick Farr-Jones

  Appreciation, Sacrifice, Player

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• Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.

  J. G. Ballard

  Meaningful, Art, Sex

  "JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty". Interview with Jean-Paul Coillard, www.jgballard.ca. 1998.

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• 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

  Sex, Hey, Stills

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• In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

  Pierre Danos

  Play, Piano

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• God somehow makes sure that in international rugby nobody wins ALL the time!

  Bob Dwyer

  Winning, International

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• Remember the look in the eyes of the Aussies and the Kiwis yesterday - I don't want to see that here.

  John Smit

  Eye, Yesterday, Looks

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• We went to see him later (on Saturday night) and he was sitting on his hospital bed, getting pelters from my missus for still being in his dirty kit, absolutely stinking.

  Sean Lamont

  Dirty, Night, Bed

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• Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless.

  Mike Catt

  Home, Squad, Confusion

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• I have some very special guests tonight, and I would like to give a big welcome to the Wayne State men and women's rugby team for coming to the game tonight and to be on my TV Show

  Mark Cuban

  Team, Men, Tv Shows

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• You come from the NRL and it's a forwards-dominated game, I think, at the moment. You get three sets and kick and chase. But at Warrington it couldn't be more opposite. They'll have a crack from anywhere and it's the type of style you want to play as a rugby player.

  Joel Monaghan

  Player, Thinking, Nrl

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• 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

  Mother, Dream, Brother

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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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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• My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

  Clint Eastwood

  Sports, Football, Uncles

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• I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But thats part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

  Rory Bremner

  Love Is, Europe, Heritage

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• I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.

  Benji Marshall

  Player, Rugby League, League

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• They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

  Bernard Laporte

  Finals, World, Matter

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