Rugby Skills Quotes

In reality, rugby is finite and unpredictable, so players need to have skills off the pitch too.

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

I wrestled before rugby league so I always had a pretty good wrestling background, a good base, and that helped with my football. It just meant my balance was always so good; a strong core, good hips and just things like that just really played a factor in how I ran the ball and tackled.

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

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

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'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.

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

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

Growing up at school I played a lot of fly-half and a lot of scrum-half, I thought I had a good boot but never really used it as much as I do now.