Keyword: Rugby

Everybody knows that I have been pumping Martin Leslie for a couple of seasons now.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Spencer’s running across field calling out, ‘Come inside me, come inside me.’

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

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

British rugby coach

We’ve lost our last eight matches. The only team that we have beaten is Western Samoa. It’s a good job we didn’t play the whole of Samoa!

Welsh rugby player

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

Rugby union secretary

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

The side has been held together by needles and sticking plaster.

Rugby coach

I don’t like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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?

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian

In my time, I've had my knee out, broken my collarbone, had my nose smashed, a rib broken, lost a few teeth, and ricked my back; but as soon as I get a bit of bad luck I'm going to quit the game.

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.

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

It will now have to be called the Calcutta Shield.

Grandmother or tails, sir?

I thought I would have a quiet pint … and about 17 noisy ones.

British rugby player

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

It’s not Terry Holmes that Bradford needs – it’s Sherlock.

Rugby coach

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

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.

Papua New Guinean rugby player

I can tell you it’s a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator