Rugby League Quotes

• I'm a great believer in what happens on the field should stay there.

  John Hopoate

  Fields, Should, Believer

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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

  Games, Play, Brain

  "Quotes of the Week". www.independent.co.uk. October 20, 1995.

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

  Adrian Hadley

  League, Unions, Rugby

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• It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

  Jonathan Davis

  Years, Firsts, Cold

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• The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us.

  Dickie Jeeps

  League, Littles, Rugby

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• Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot.

  Colin Welland

  Princess, Player, Thinking

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

  Alan Cooper

  Men, Clubs, Dinner

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• I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.

  Brett White

  Might, Married, Divorced

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• St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.

  Darren Lockyer

  Imagine, Canterbury, League

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• I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

  Jake Friend

  Football, Years, Names

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• This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.

  Benji Marshall

  Morning, Games, Sick

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• Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.

  Cooper Cronk

  Vanity, Games, Perfect

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• I have more critics than Hitler.

  Beau Ryan

  League, Rugby, Critics

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

  Brett Morris

  Harlem, Globetrotters, Ifs

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• Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.

  Willie Mason

  Bus, And Off, League

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• We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips.

  Brett Morris

  Video, Licking, Saws

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• I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.

  Willie Mason

  League, Rugby, Flogging

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• Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

  Braith Anasta

  League, Rugby, Tricky

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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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• I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

  Ryan Giggs

  Stars, Dad, Real

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• We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it . . . and I'd hate to see it go.

  Ben Hannant

  Sports, Hate, Games

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• He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far.

  Thomas Leuluai

  Thinking, Games, Centre

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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, Play

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• We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous year. We got nothing and were lucky to get home!

  Dally Messenger

  Home, Years, Gold

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• I did not think I would make the grade.

  Clive Churchill

  Thinking, Grades, League

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