Professional Rugby Quotes

The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.

I'm thankful for the collaboration between the WRU and Ospreys, which will look after my best interests and enables me to play the best rugby possible.

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

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

We are a rugby family really. My dad and both granddads played rugby. Dad was good, on his way to Bath until he broke his leg. My brother Harry got an invitation to go and play for Bristol. I go and watch Sale Sharks and have been to Twickenham a few times.

I've lost count of the times I've been asked what I do for a living. When I say rugby people say: 'Yes, but what's your other job?'

International rugby is a step up, and this is somewhere you come to get better and improve as a player.

I definitely want to play rugby at the top level, international rugby.

When I started my professional rugby career, in 2002, there was one guy filming training if you were lucky.

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.

If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.

To be the best in the Heineken Cup or the Top 14 you've got to win home and away.