Rugby Quotations | Page 3

If you are a purist about rugby that was a bloody good game of Six Nations rugby, played in very poor conditions.

In the course of our negotiations, Premier Rugby made it quite clear they will settle for 50 percent of the Lions money. We thought it appropriate to use the rest of the money to help players whose lives were badly affected by injuries.

I remember in Sri Lanka watching the Rugby World Cup final with Michael Vaughan and Ashley Giles,

I know of one million-dollar player who gets about half his money from a commercial arrangement and no one over there (east coast) has kicked up about it. What we're doing isn't new. Commercial payments have been around rugby for some time.

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'

Being left out of the match squad for the Ireland international was not a factor in my thinking. Retiring from Test rugby has been on my mind for a while because I was away from the family for so long during the World Cup.

His experience as a winning captain in international rugby with the All Blacks and as a winning captain in both the Super 12 and NPC with Canterbury will be invaluable to our squad.

But he hasn't. Please. As I've tried to explain, let's not create any headlines. Let him go off and enjoy his rugby and we'll see what happens.

He's the right age, he's 24, he's arguably the best rugby league centre in the world, and I think he'd be a fair acquisition to our game if everything lines up.

Hull is one of the biggest clubs in rugby league, but this was their first silverware in 20 years. We felt it was important to reflect not just the triumph, but how it was achieved and what it meant for the club's fans and the city of Hull.

He said Quayle's the sort who'd be good at rowing or playing rugby, ... I know rugby players. They run hard and they tackle hard, but then they go off the field and they can be quite gentle.

Gavin is a massive personality in rugby circles. He has to be whiter than white to prevent the sort of outcry we are seeing now.

George is definitely a talented player and someone who has so much to offer Australian Rugby now, and in the future.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

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

If he decides he wants a new challenge in an international game with the potential to play his way into a Rugby World Cup, that's great.

I can't wait for the season to start! I'm sure every Director of Rugby and coach is in the same boat and really looking forward to the start of the new campaign. It's the time of year when everyone starts with zero on the table and everything in front of you is still in your own hands.

I don't want to get carried away on this subject because Tom is a work in progress, but if the circumstances were right he could play Test rugby today.

He's not a rugby man. Bath didn't want me, so I had no choice but to leave.

He's made a great mark on our rugby program. He's one of the guys we'll be saddened to see leave.

I get too excited about football and rugby.

You can't get a quality game of rugby when someone like that is in charge. He didn't allow any phases or play to develop. There was no continuity. The players got frustrated. When you are trying to get people to come and watch club rugby you can't have it killed as a spectacle like that. I know referees have to learn but this guy has been around for a while and I don't see any improvement.

The idea that we are lighting cigars with ?20 notes while the rest of Scottish rugby flounders is absolutely untrue.

The idea of the scheme has been to introduce youngsters to the game of rugby and then keep them in the sport through club links. By doing this, we are providing the youngsters with an excellent route into rugby, which will hopefully encourage them to keep playing the game.

The economic and social benefits of rugby league continue to grow. Commercially the game has never been in better shape. We've had a record year on and off the field.

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

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didnt just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.

I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.

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

The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.

We're going to tear those boys apart.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.