We’ve collected the best Rugby Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Owen Farrell, Tanc Sade, Jonny Bairstow, Brian O’Driscoll, Sonny Bill Williams. Use them as an inspiration.
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Rugby’s all I’ve ever wanted to do.
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I had to write 1500 words on advertising and marketing at the weekend for my business management course, and you can’t think about rugby while you are doing that!
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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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I played rugby until I was 15, 16 and I eventually had to say, ‘No, I have to choose one’ and it was obviously going to be football, I miss playing rugby a lot.
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I thought I’d be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.
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My sport was my comfort. The routine, the camaraderie, the team… everyone’s around you. After rugby you’re on your own.
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I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, ‘We need you.’ There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead.
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In rugby I think it is good to have a bit of a persona, a bit of a character because we are one of the last things that isn’t necessarily controlled.
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The rugby team is a massive part of the city and generates a real passion but there is also far more to Toulouse. I learned not only to respect the history of the club but also the area and I soon came to appreciate ‘buildings and structures.
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The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren’t enjoying it.
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I’m a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football – but tougher.
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My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.
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If you get a career-threatening injury your career is done and you need something to fall back on. But if it wasn’t for football I would have played rugby, if it wasn’t rugby it would have been basketball and I would have just gone through all the sports.
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To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.
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I’ve got it all: I’m good-looking, I’m educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn’t it?
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I was captain of the rugby side at Shrivenham – as were my two brothers after me.
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So I was in football, athletics doing shot put and sprinting, and rugby all at the same time. Ultimately, I didn’t know how serious you had to take one of them and I was just a kid wanting to do everything at once.
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Gay men are accepted in films, music and politics because people came out and broke the mould and stereotype in those industries. What I am trying to do is break the trend in rugby and sport in general and show any aspiring sportsman, regardless of his age, that the mould has been broken.
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It’s a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
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I’d always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.
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I loved playing rugby so much. I would have played rugby every day if I could have. I loved being a player so much, I don’t know if I could sit on the side, with the passion I have and try and influence without being on there.
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Ultimately, rugby players are like surfers. You look for the perfect wave, but you don’t always find it. And if you did, you’d probably pack up and try something else.
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I never had a concussion playing rugby.
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I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.
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My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.
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I just loved going fast. I still enjoy go-karting. I was also good at rugby, and my dad wanted me to be a sportsman, but I never thought I could do sports professionally.
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Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move – you don’t interrupt.
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Whatever sport I played – rugby, rowing – there were always naturally talented people who were better than me.
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When I first went to rugby, I wanted it all; I just wanted it all, and you know, I thought it was just going to happen just like that, but I’ve come to learn that good things take time.
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As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.
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It was a really tough transition going from rugby league to AFL.
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I know what it feels like to be one of those conservative rugby lads because I went to a similar school growing up.
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You’re not going to please everyone, but then, it’s not about pleasing people: it’s about winning rugby games.
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I’m a part of major league rugby. We had a league meeting to decide what to do with anthem protests, and even though I personally agree with what they say they are protesting as inequality and judicial system and incarceration rates among minorities, we decided all should stand and respect every national anthem.
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I didn’t have to play rugby that well, and I didn’t have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.
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I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn’t have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.
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I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so you are in the action.
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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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Wherever I am in my life, it’s because rugby has enabled me to do that.
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I get too excited about football and rugby.
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I definitely want to play rugby at the top level, international rugby.
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When I was 11 my school held a sports day near Crystal Palace. We were told we were going to play a rugby match. The ball was eventually passed to me and I was obviously expected to run with it. I took one look at all these players charging towards me, placed the ball on the ground and walked off the pitch.
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I take a laid-back approach to a lot of things in life and, at the end of the day, rugby’s just a game.
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If you can’t give 100% to rugby then you can’t do it justice.
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I’ve always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket… I’m an outdoors kind of guy.
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Obviously, international rugby is a different level, but there are some really good players around.
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I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don’t usually deal with mortality at that early age and it’s given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.
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Once I realised what boxing was, I understood – this is the ultimate form of competition. Once you box you go back to the football field or rugby and it just doesn’t have the same spice.
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There will be nothing better than playing international rugby. It’s a dream come true.
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I’ve always had a rugby ball in my hand, so it was inevitable I was going to play.
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I’m thankful for the collaboration between the WRU and Ospreys, which will look after my best interests and enables me to play the best rugby possible.
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I didn’t fulfil my rugby potential.
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I think New Zealand Rugby do an exceptional job, the way it’s set up from the All Blacks, right down to grassroots. There’s a clear path young players can take if they want to be an All Black, if they’re talented, or if they get opportunities.
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Wales are obviously a team that like to play rugby in your half and put as many people as possible in the front line and get off the line and put pressure on you.
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My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.
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I really want to remain involved in rugby. I want to continue and have an influence on the game.
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I started off playing rugby league as well as union. I switched between fly-half and wing, but I preferred to play fly-half. I liked to be at the heart of everything. I liked to be involved.
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The popularity of rugby definitely grew in South Africa over the World Cup, and sport has great power, so hopefully it will make some difference. Even if it’s just 1%, it’s a bit of a change.
