Keyword: Rugby

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

(1946 – ) English broadcaster

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

Australian rugby player

Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of the same today.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

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

Rugby League is war without the frills.

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

British rugby coach

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

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

Rugby coach

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

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

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

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

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.

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Grandmother or tails, sir?

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

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

It will now have to be called the Calcutta Shield.

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