If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.
Andy Ellis - the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago.
The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.
Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.
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?
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.
I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.
If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.
I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.
Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.
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.
This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass.
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.
Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.
I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.
The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.
Rugby backs can be identified because they generally have clean jerseys and identifiable partings in their hair... come the revolution the backs will be the first to be lined up against the wall and shot for living parasitically off the work of others.
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