Quotes and One Liners

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.

Tom O'Reilly

Papua New Guinean rugby player

Sports Colin Meads Rugby

The relationship between the Welsh and English is based on trust and understanding. They don’t trust us and we don’t understand them.

Dudley Wood

Rugby union secretary

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former, the ball is the missile, in the latter, men are the missiles

Alfred E. Crawley

English schoolmaster, sexologist, anthropologist & sports journalist

Rugby League is war without the frills.

Unknown

Conflict Sports Rugby

Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient… that is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball?

Peter Cook

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian

Sports British Rugby

Rugby is a game for men with no fear of brain injury.

Linda Smith

(1958 – 2006) English radio performer, stand-up comic & writer

Sports Just before his team were beaten 112-0 Rugby

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

Sue Lawley

(1946 – ) English broadcaster

Football Sports Rugby

All we need is a little bit of luck and we could explode.

Roy Lester

British rugby coach

The main difference between playing League and Union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday.

Tom David

Alcohol Food/Drink Sports Hangovers Rugby

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

Oscar Wilde

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

He’s looking for some meaningful penetration into the backline.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

I wouldn’t play the French at marbles, never mind Rugby League. All we will ever learn off them is how to fight and spit and bite each other.

Alex Murphy

Rugby coach

Sports After John Jeffrey had dropped and badly damaged' the Calcutta Cup Rugby

It will now have to be called the Calcutta Shield.

Bob Munro

It is the best sport in the world; it's got everything – speed and tough, ugly men.

Terry O'Connor

Irish rugby player

There’s nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of the same today.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentlemen's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.

Henry Blaha

Football Sports Rugby Soccer

You don’t like to see hookers going down on players like that.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator