Quotes and One Liners

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Beer Food/Drink Sports On playing his last game of rugby for Bath Rugby

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

Gareth Chilcott

British rugby player

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

Terry O'Connor

Irish rugby player

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

I can tell you it’s a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Rugby is a game for men with no fear of brain injury.

Linda Smith

(1958 – 2006) English radio performer, stand-up comic & writer

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

Oscar Wilde

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Sports Rugby To Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips for his pre-match coin-toss preference

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

Tom O'Reilly

Papua New Guinean rugby player

Sports Colin Meads Rugby

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.

Henry Blaha

Football Sports Rugby Soccer

Grandmother or tails, sir?

Anonymous rugby referee

It’s not Terry Holmes that Bradford needs – it’s Sherlock.

Alex Murphy

Rugby coach

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

Jonathan Davies

Welsh rugby player

Sports Referees Rugby

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

John Dickenson

Food/Drink Sports Pubs Rugby

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

Tom David

Alcohol Food/Drink Sports Hangovers Rugby

He’s looking for some meaningful penetration into the backline.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Rugby League is war without the frills.

Unknown

Conflict Sports Rugby

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

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

Alfred E. Crawley

English schoolmaster, sexologist, anthropologist & sports journalist

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