Interesting & Funny Rugby Quotes:
“Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.”
“After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.”
“I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.”
“I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other’s ears off.”
“Every time I went to tackle him, Horrocks went one way, Taylor went the other, and all I got was the bloody hyphen.”
“Rugby football is a game I can’t claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squelch this program, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.”
“I don’t know about us not having a Plan B when things went wrong, we looked like we didn’t have a Plan A.”
On England’s new look against Australia: “This looks a good team on paper, let’s see how it looks on the grass.”
“The relationship between the Welsh and the English is based on trust and understanding. They don’t trust us and we don’t understand them.”
“Remember that rugby is a team game; all 14 of you make sure you pass the ball to Jonah.”
“Anyone who doesn’t watch rugby league is not a real person. He’s a cow’s hoof, an ethnic or comes from Melbourne.”
