Rugby Quotes - Page 7

• School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

  Gordon Pirie

  Sports, Running, Country

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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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• Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Football, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Football, Games, Gentleman

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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 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 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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• 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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• Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

  Braith Anasta

  Rugby League, League, Tricky

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

  Jason Ryles

  Rugby League, Play, Afghanistan

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

  John Hopoate

  Rugby League, Fields, Should

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Rugby League, Years

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• Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.

  Keith Senior

  Rugby League, Keds, Language

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• I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality.

  Tanc Sade

  Soccer, Real, Team

  Source: collider.com

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• Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

  Tanc Sade

  Soccer, Thinking, Australia

  Source: collider.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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• The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

  Alan Lewis

  Games, Two, Favour

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