Rugby Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Wind, Different, Flags

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

  Alan Cooper

  Men, Rugby League, Clubs

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

  Dickie Jeeps

  Rugby League, League, Littles

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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

  Rugby League, Years, Firsts

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• The winger resembles Mother Brown, running with a high knee-lift and sometimes not progressing far from the spot where he started.

  Simon Geoghegan

  Mother, Running, Progress

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• I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

  Roger Bannister

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave it a lash, set our hair on fire and ran after the opposition for 20 minutes and, if they survived that, they beat us by 50 points.

  Eddie O'Sullivan

  Team, Fire, Hair

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• On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

  Jack Rowell

  Player, Injury, Counting

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• My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.

  Julian Clary

  Sexy, Boys, Shrines

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• I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it - started throwing my hands in the air, drinking red wine and flying off the handle.

  John Kirwan

  Drinking, Wine, Air

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• For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Goal, Focus, Clubs

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• Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.

  David Campese

  Games, Likes, Happens

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• I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

  Nick Easter

  Heart, Bottom, Presses

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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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• 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

  Inspirational, School, Player

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• The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

  Hugh Jackman

  Song, Night, Australia

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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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• 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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• 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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• We're going to tear those boys apart.

  Will Carling

  Boys, Tears

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• I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

  Frank Layden

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Mind, Knows

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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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