Rugby Quotes

• Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cities, Bully, Funny Sports

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• Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

  Chris Laidlaw

  Football, Beer, American Football

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

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• Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

  Heyneke Meyer

  Sports, Dancing, Contact

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• Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

  Winston Churchill

  Games, Gentleman, Playing Rugby

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• The French are predictably unpredictable.

  Andrew Mehrtens

  Unpredictable

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• 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

  Beer, Player, Daylight

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

  Martin Offiah

  Eye, Hands

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• The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.

  Jean-Pierre Rives

  Mind, Firsts, Spirit

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• 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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• I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Soccer, Ears, Biting

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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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• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Football, Motivational Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.2, McGraw Hill Professional

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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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• winning is not everything it is the only thing

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Winning, Nfl

  Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.3, McGraw Hill Professional

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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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• I didn't know what was going through my mind.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Mind, Knows

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• I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

  Colin Meads

  Wings, People, Playing Rugby

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

  Bill McLaren

  Bags, Weasels, Cunning

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• We're going to tear those boys apart.

  Will Carling

  Boys, Tears

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• I thought I would have a quiet pint ... and about 17 noisy ones.

  Gareth Chilcott

  Quiet, Noisy, Pints

  1993 On playing his last game of rugby for Bath.

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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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• 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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