Rugby Quotes
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	I tried to play rugby but was never very good.   
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	I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.   
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	I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.   
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	Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'   
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	I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.   
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	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.   
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	There's ego in all of us rugby players.   
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	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.   
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	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.   
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	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.   
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	I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.   
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	I still get a great buzz from rugby.   
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	We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.   
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	The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.   
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	Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.   
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	I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.   
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	After talking to my family and friends and after a lot of thought, I have decided to retire from international rugby with immediate effect   
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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.   
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	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.   
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	I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.   
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	I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.   
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	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.   
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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.   
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	Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					