Keyword: Rugby

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

(1946 – ) English broadcaster
Football Sports

It will now have to be called the Calcutta Shield.

Sports

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

Irish rugby player
Sports

Grandmother or tails, sir?

Sports

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.

Sports

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

The pub is as much a part of rugby as is the playing field.

Food/Drink Sports

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
Misspokements Sports

Rugby League is war without the frills.

Conflict Sports

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

British rugby player
Beer Food/Drink Sports

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
Misspokements Sports

I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway, you're on the same wavelength as the referees.

Welsh rugby player
Sports

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
Sports

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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
Sports

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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
Misspokements Sports

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

British rugby coach
Sports

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

English schoolmaster, sexologist, anthropologist & sports journalist
Sports

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

Alcohol Food/Drink Sports