Rugby Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the last, and it is time we prepared ourselves for the greatest celebration of Pom-bashing since Bodyline, the 1930s cricket tour that became an international incident. That one rankles to this day and is otherwise known as the longest whinge in sporting history.

  Simon Barnes

  Sports, Team, Two

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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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• Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Hate, Sore Losers, Fans

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• I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first.

  Dan Carter

  Want, Firsts, Seasons

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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, Rugby League, Years

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• I did not think I would make the grade.

  Clive Churchill

  Thinking, Rugby League, Grades

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• Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.

  Craig Coleman

  Rugby League, Land, Pockets

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

  Darren Lockyer

  Rugby League, Imagine, Canterbury

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• Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

  Andrew Johns

  Rugby League, People, Training

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• I feel like I've been victimised. It's because of who I am. I've done my time for past mistakes, if it wasn't me there wouldn't be a reaction.

  John Hopoate

  Mistake, Past, Who I Am

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• This is a bit different to the Thursday breakfast I'm used to. It's usually just me and my dog.

  Shane Tronc

  Dog, Rugby League, Different

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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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• 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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• Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby, I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

  Jonah Lomu

  Surreal, Whole Life, Turns

  "Jonah Lomu: Wing commander has seen the light". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Karma, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.567, Modern Library

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• I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.

  Barry Pepper

  Baseball, Football, Volleyball

  Source: collider.com

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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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• You've got to be committed. It comes down to setting yourself goals as an individual. In rugby you have team goals that you strive for, but you also set yourself simple goals that are achievable. It helps to write them down so you understand what you need to do, and what your focus is. Put them on your wall, then each time you wake up, you'll see them. Then you can just tick them off once you've achieved them.

  Filo Tiatia

  Wall, Team, Writing

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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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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• 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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