Rugby Quotes
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Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
Brian O'Driscoll
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I hope, for my generation and for children at high school aspiring to be rugby players, that they will hear the name Speight and associate it with rugby more than anything else.
Henry Speight
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In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.
Colin Welland
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If Japan reach the quarter-finals of the Rugby Word Cup then I can retire. Sit back, enjoy and criticise and be like Clive Woodward on the Television.
Eddie Jones
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In the past two or three years, the number of clubs has doubled ... we've got close to 8 000 players, about 60 to 80 clubs. It's not restricted to the metros any more, it's gone rural.
Nasser Hussain
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They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).
Bernard Laporte
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I’m really enjoying my rugby at Glasgow, the club is in a great place, we’ve been pretty successful over the last two or three years, and we’ve got a great squad and a great coaching team.
George Horne
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There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!
Alex Wyllie
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A game of rugby is a work of art!
Danie Craven
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No one can play in two completely different positions…and no other team in the world of rugby would try to do that.
Eddie Jones
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Once the rugby league finished, those that actually like the oval sports, the rugby league and the AFL, swapped from Channel Nine to Ten, so there was some very heartening figures there for AFL in Sydney, particularly in the last hour of football.
Eddie McGuire
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It’s not a match made in heaven.We only meet when there’s rugby – we don’t go to each other’s houses, we don’t go out for stout, it’s very much a professional relationship, although after the best part of two decades, it’s a very close one.
George Hook
