Rugby Quotes
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes -
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
Carlos Slim
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Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.
Charlie Bewley -
I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.
Brian O'Driscoll -
Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.
Brian O'Driscoll -
There's ego in all of us rugby players.
Brian O'Driscoll
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I still get a great buzz from rugby.
Brian O'Driscoll -
The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.
Virginia Graham -
We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.
Eddie Charles Jones -
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
Oscar Wilde -
I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.
Brian O'Driscoll -
After talking to my family and friends and after a lot of thought, I have decided to retire from international rugby with immediate effect
Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls
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I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.
Brian O'Driscoll -
Good big blokes are better than good little blokes. Then again, good little blokes are better than dud big blokes. And dud big blokes should play something other than Rugby.
Bob Dwyer -
I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.
Bill Murray -
I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.
Brian O'Driscoll -
I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.
Brian O'Driscoll -
I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.
Brian O'Driscoll
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Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.
Brian O'Driscoll -
Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.
Damian Hopley -
In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.
Georgie Fame -
I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.
Morgan Freeman