Rugby Player Quotes

Every rugby player in Australia and New Zealand or wherever they are from wants to play in the World Cup, and I am no different.

I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.

People think of rugby players as being tough but it's another thing to stand in front of someone and get kicked, punched, taken down. In rugby you have two contact sessions a week and you play a game on the weekend.

I've always had a rugby ball in my hand, so it was inevitable I was going to play.

I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so you are in the action.

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

There was no way I was going to end up in the scrum when I came to rugby - you know, waste my pretty looks.

It's good if people see me as a running nine but I wanted to be viewed as an all-round scrum-half, who can do anything at any time.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.

When it comes to rugby, I'm a Welshman through and through. I'm a huge fan; I've played rugby since I was seven. Unfortunately, I had to quit when I went to drama school because it doesn't really go hand in had with being an actor.

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?'

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

What do you remember about Jason Robinson? His feet. Not how improved he was under a high ball or his kicking skills. Everyone remembers those feet. He could go round you in a phone box.

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.

Rugby's all I've ever wanted to do.

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.

My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.