Rugby Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• We went to see him later (on Saturday night) and he was sitting on his hospital bed, getting pelters from my missus for still being in his dirty kit, absolutely stinking.

  Sean Lamont

  Dirty, Night, Bed

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• Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless.

  Mike Catt

  Home, Squad, Confusion

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• I have some very special guests tonight, and I would like to give a big welcome to the Wayne State men and women's rugby team for coming to the game tonight and to be on my TV Show

  Mark Cuban

  Team, Men, Tv Shows

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• I think the main message is that world rugby needs New Zealand and New Zealand needs world rugby.

  Mike Miller

  Thinking, Needs, World

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• I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.

  Jason O'Mara

  Growing Up, Yoga, Player

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

  John Hopoate

  Rugby League, Fields, Should

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• It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.

  Glenn Morrison

  Pain, Rugby League, Trying

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• Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak.

  Robbie Kearns

  Rugby League, Towers, World

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• I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!

  Jason Ryles

  Rugby League, Play, Afghanistan

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• Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

  Braith Anasta

  Rugby League, League, Tricky

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• I thought you could play ... You've got nothing. Where's the big hair? I brought my scissors today so I could cut the hair. You've got nothing.

  Terry Hill

  Cutting, Hair, Rugby League

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• In an environment where everybody's jersey is up for grabs, like what Joe Schmidt is currently doing with Ireland in rugby, a massive competitive environment is created every night at training, every day in the gym and every day, believe it or not, in the tactical computer room.

  Brian Cody

  Believe, Night, Training

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• Gethin Jenkins is one of the best loose-head props in the world. He hits up to 40 rucks a game, makes at least 10 carries and even more tackles. Those are amazing statistics for a prop and he is a very intelligent rugby player.

  Warren Gatland

  Intelligent, Player, Games

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• I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

  Barack Obama

  Grateful, Finals, Lasts

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• I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.

  Allister Coetzee

  Numbers, Decision, Leader

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• The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

  George Gregan

  Athlete, Thinking, Player

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• And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.

  Jai Courtney

  School, Smoking, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

  Mark Haddon

  Teenager, Team, School

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• I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

  Tom Jones

  Play, Voice, Cricket

  "My Exclusive Interview with Sir Tom Jones, in Which I Fail to Learn How to Be More Like Tom Jones". Interview with Tony Sachs, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2009.

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• It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.

  Prince William

  Team, Thinking, Balance

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• Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that
  it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

  Nick Saban

  Soccer, Football, Numbers

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• Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook.

  Jamal Idris

  Rugby League, Hopefully, I Can

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• It's going to be tough but I think I was more nervous about playing NRL than I will be playing this match simply because I've got Billy Slater in front of me and there were a lot of expectations.

  Gareth Widdop

  Thinking, Nrl, Rugby League

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• The World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played in. I guess it would be good to have more matches of such intensity but, trust me, our bodies would struggle if we were subjected to this every week. There is a limit to how much players can take.

  Sam Tomkins

  Struggle, Player, Rugby League

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