John Layfield 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.

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

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

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

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

You don't really get fly-halves battering each other.

My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.

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

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.

I played rugby league, I probably played for about 10 years I think, and I wrestled before then. I did about a year of wrestling, and I think I got a bit tired of the tights, so I started to play football with the mates. I used to be a front rower, the big guys up front. I used to be 97 kilograms, which is like 210 pounds, or something like that.

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

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

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

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

I was lucky enough to play with great platers Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Darren Lockyer and that's where I learned about leadership.

Obviously, international rugby is a different level, but there are some really good players around.

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.

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

The National Football League is a very physical game.

I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.

I've had a number of kids in the NBA that I've coached and a number of other great players that I've coached.

I don't know how many times you see 10s tackle each other.

Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.

Tackling is my favorite part of the game.

You know that when you come to England, there are a lot of players who like to play a more physical game.