Josh Lewsey Quotations

When you beat your main rival you feel a couple of inches taller, especially when you meet up in the England camp. You feel as if you can go in there with your head held high. The rivalry is very much alive.

One of the Irish players scooped it back after the whistle and to our surprise the referee then gave a turnover.

I am hyperactive...in an extremely hyperactive sort of way

I feel like it is our time again.

I don't think we were taught a lesson in New Zealand, it was more a case of our experience confirming what a lot of people knew already,

I was only operated on a week ago and I have made spectacular progress since then,

We have got to look at the way we play and implement those changes now. If we don't do that, we won't give ourselves a chance of winning, simple as that.

You can't be on the receiving end of rugby like that without falling off a few tackles, because you're utterly exhausted by the end. It was such a quick game. They weren't fitter than us. They just executed things more accurately than we did and seemed to have more direction.

The op went well and there have been no complications,

When you lose to someone you know so well it is like losing to your brother in the back garden . . . there are bragging rights at stake.

With Lawrence, it's not just a playing issue. Because of the character he is, it would change the dynamics and the leadership.

People say that losing Lawrence was a decisive factor. He's obviously a big difference to any team, though I don't think his injury can explain why we under-performed so badly. What's certain is that we had a long break in that game while Lawrence was taken off the field. After that we never really performed throughout the tour.

You can't just switch on wide, expansive rugby overnight,

The biggest disappointment of last year was to get knocked out in the group stages,

It was a massively intense game. I could've gone on for another 80 minutes, I had so much adrenaline left.

In both games we gifted them soft scores in the first 20 minutes. You can't afford to do that against quality teams because you always have to play catch-up.

I'm positive I touched the ball down over the line.

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

New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.