Keyword: Rugby

The pub is as much a part of rugby as is the playing field.

Food/Drink Sports

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

(1946 – ) English broadcaster
Football Sports

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?

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian
Sports

Spencer’s running across field calling out, ‘Come inside me, come inside me.’

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

Alcohol Food/Drink Sports

I thought I would have a quiet pint … and about 17 noisy ones.

British rugby player
Beer Food/Drink Sports

There’s nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.

Papua New Guinean rugby player
Sports

We’ve lost our last eight matches. The only team that we have beaten is Western Samoa. It’s a good job we didn’t play the whole of Samoa!

Welsh rugby player
Misspokements Sports

Everybody knows that I have been pumping Martin Leslie for a couple of seasons now.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

You don’t like to see hookers going down on players like that.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentlemen's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.

Football Sports

All we need is a little bit of luck and we could explode.

British rugby coach
Sports

I don’t like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Sports

Rugby League is war without the frills.

Conflict Sports

I wouldn’t play the French at marbles, never mind Rugby League. All we will ever learn off them is how to fight and spit and bite each other.

Rugby coach
Sports

I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway, you're on the same wavelength as the referees.

Welsh rugby player
Sports

I've never scored a hat-trick before… not even playing against my sister in the yard at home.

Australian rugby player
Sports

It is the best sport in the world; it's got everything – speed and tough, ugly men.

Irish rugby player
Sports

The relationship between the Welsh and English is based on trust and understanding. They don’t trust us and we don’t understand them.

Rugby union secretary
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