Rugby Players 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.

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.

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

I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

In training, the players would deliberately hit high balls into me and barge into me so I'd get used to that side of the English game. I actually enjoy the physical side of it now.

I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson.

I hope, for my generation and for children at high school aspiring to be rugby players, that they will hear the name Speight and associate it with rugby more than anything else.

There's only one Lawrence Dallaglio and there's only one James Haskell.

I loved Martin Offiah, Andy Farrell and Shaun Edwards in that Wigan team, and they are still heroes today. They were outstanding players and great to watch.

I have some very special guests tonight, and I would like to give a big welcome to the Wayne State men and women's rugby team for coming to the game tonight and to be on my TV Show