Rugby Quotes and Sayings
A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.
- Philip Toynbee
A major rugby tour by the British Isles to New Zealand is a cross between a medieval crusade and a prep school outing.
- John Hopkins
After England had been humbled by New Zealand in the World Cup semi-final: “I don’t know about us not having a Plan B when things went wrong, we looked like we didn’t have a Plan A.”
- Geoff Cooke (1995)
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
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.
- Chris Laidlaw
Don’t ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I’m someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.
- Robert Norster (1994)
England’s coach Jack Powell, an immensely successful businessman, has the acerbic wit of Dorothy Parker and, according to most New Zealanders, a similar knowledge of rugby.
- Mark Reason Total Sport (1996)
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
Most Misleading Campaign of 1991: England’s rugby World Cup squad, who promoted a scheme called ‘Run with the Ball’. Not, unfortunately, among themselves.
- Time Out (1991)
If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.
- Will Carling (1995)
I’m still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby’s first millionaire five years ago.
- David Campese (1991)
On England’s new look against Australia: “This looks a good team on paper, let’s see how it looks on grass.
- Nigel Mellville (1984)
On his son Huw’s choice to play for England: “I knew he would never play for Wales … he’s tone deaf.
- Vemon Davies (1981)
On playing for Wales at Lansdowne Road, Dublin: “I didn’t know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.”
- Mike Watkins (1984)
On Wales losing 28-9 against Australia: “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 (1984)
Pre-game pep talk before facing England: “Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They’ve taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our houses and they only live in them for a fortnight every 12 months. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We’ve been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English - and that’s who you are playing this afternoon.”
- Phil Bennett (1977)
Remember that rugby is a team game; all 14 of you make sure you pass the ball to Jonah.
- Anon fax to N.Z. team (1995)
Rugby is not like tea, which is good only in England, with English water and English milk. On the contrary, rugby would be better, frankly, if it were made in a Twickenham pot and warmed up in a Pyrenean cauldron.
- Dennis LaLanne (1960)
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
- Oscar Wilde
Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman’s game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.
- Henry Blaha
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
Subdue and penetrate.
- The motto of the All-Blacks
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, BBC TV (1974)
The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.
- Jean-Pierre Rives
The job of Welsh coach is like a minor part in a Quentin Tarantino film: you stagger on, you hallucinate, nobody seems to understand a word you say, you throw up, you get shot. Poor old Kevin Bowring has come up through the coaching structure so he knows what it takes … 15 more players than Wales have at present.
- Mark Reason Total Sport (1996)
The tactical difference between Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former, the ball is the missile, in the latter, men are the missles.
- Alfred E. Crawley
The only hope for the England rugby union team is to play it all for laughs. It would pack them in if the public address system at Twickenham was turned up full blast to record the laughs at every inept bit of passing, kicking or tackling. The nation would be in fits … and on telly the BBC would not need a commentator but just a tape of that Laughing Policeman, turning it loud at the most hilarious bits.
- Jim Rivers, letter to The Guardian (1979)
What happens when a game of football is proposed at Christmas among a party of your men assembled from different schools? Alas! … The Eton man is enamoured of his own rules, and turns up his nose at Rugby as not sufficiently aristocratic, while the Rugbeian retorts that ‘bullying’ and ’sneaking’ are not to his taste, and he is not afraid of his shins, or of a ‘maul’ or ’scrimmage’. On hearing this the Harrovian pricks up his ears, and though he might previously have sided with Rugby, the insinuation against the courage of those who do not allow ’shinning’ arouses his ire, and causes him to refuse to lay with one who has offered it. Thus it is found impossible to get up a game.” - Editorial, The Field, 1861, reflecting the confused state of affairs that existed in the years before rugby and football emerged as separate disciplines.
- Unknown
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
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It’s a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
- Jonah Lomu
I wanted a play that would paint the full face of sensualtiy, rebellion and revivalism. In South Wales these three phenomena have played second fiddle only to the Rugby Union which is a distillation of all three.
- Gwyn Thomas
Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.
- Chris Laidlaw
Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.
- Pierre Danos
Rugby is played by men with odd shaped balls.
- Car bumper sticker
The advantage law is the best law in rugby,because it lets you ignore all the others for the good of the game.
- Derek Robinson
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
The main difference between playing League and Union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday.
- Tom David
I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other’s ears off.
- Elizabeth Taylor
There is far too much talk about good ball and bad ball. In my opinion, good ball is when you have possession and bad ball is when the opposition have it.
- Dick Jeeps
To play rugby league, you need three things: a good pass, a good tackle and a good excuse.
- Author Unknown
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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
A game played by fewer than fifteen a side, at least half of whom should be totally unfit.
- Michael Green, British humorist.
On England’s new rubber training suit-As you run around Battersea Park in them, looking like a cross between a member of the SAS and Blake’s Seven, there is always the lingering fear of arrest.
- Brian Moore
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.”
- Andrew Mehrtens
On female rugby teams - Everybody thinks we should have moustaches and hairy arses, but in fact you could put us all on the cover of Vogue.
- Helen Kirk
best of the best game it is.