Franz Beckenbauer Quotes

I like rugby - I watch it from time to time. It's basically football without pads but probably a little bit more dangerous than football. You've got to be a lot tougher in that sport - but I definitely like watching rugby and watching those guys knock each other around. It looks like a fun sport.

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.

In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys.

Rugby is just a ball. I would be much more versed to coach American football, but you need 22 players and all of the equipment. With rugby, all you need is some green grass, a ball, and a bunch of kids who want to run into each other really hard, which they enjoy.

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

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.

I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.

Everybody goes through situations like this. A tipped ball, a shoe-string tackle on a third-down scramble by the quarterback where he has 40 yards to run.

Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.

You're shooting the quarterback, and he drops back to pass the ball, and you see the ball leave his hand at 10 frames per second. At 7 frames per second, the ball's already gone.

There's nothing like being on the field, taking on blocks, chasing after fast guys.

In football, contact is normal, especially in England.

I was a good reader of a rugby match. I could kick, too.

I knew very little about Rugby. But, I think it helps in terms of an American audience the game is enough like football in that it's a battle for field position and you score by running into what looks a lot like an end zone. I think in terms the nuance of the game, Americans won't get that stuff. I think in terms of the peanut butter and jelly version of what you need to know, I think it's pretty clear.

I'm a natural pocket passer.

I care nothing about American football.

The biggest pass for a defender is a pass forward.

I like running that football.

What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing. Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he hadn't kicked a ball since last season and I asked him if he'd been training.