Quotes and Sayings

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
- Oscar Wilde

The tactical difference between Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former, the ball is the missile, in the latter, men are the missles.
- Alfred E. Crawley

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.
- Chris Laidlaw

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman’s game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.
- Henry Blaha

The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.
- Jean-Pierre Rives

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.
- Joe Theismann

It’s a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
- Jonah Lomu

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.
- Ryan Giggs

Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.
- Chris Laidlaw

There is far too much talk about good ball and bad ball. In my opinion, good ball is when you have possession and bad ball is when the opposition have it.
- Dick Jeeps

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I’m an angel.
- Jonny Wilkinson

The advantage law is the best law in rugby,because it lets you ignore all the others for the good of the game.
- Derek Robinson

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?
- Peter Pook

If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.
- Will Carling

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.
- Pierre Danos

To play rugby league, you need three things: a good pass, a good tackle and a good excuse.
- Anon

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
- Yoshiro Mori

Rugby is not like tea, which is good only in England, with English water and English milk. On the contrary, rugby would be better, frankly, if it were made in a Twickenham pot and warmed up in a Pyrenean cauldron.
- Dennis LaLanne

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other’s ears off.
- Elizabeth Taylor

On female rugby teams - Everybody thinks we should have moustaches and hairy arses, but in fact you could put us all on the cover of Vogue.
- Helen Kirk

The main difference between playing League and Union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday.
- Tom David

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