Top 1200 Playing Rugby Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

But in the NFL, you know you're not playing for the 'T' on the side of the helmet. You're not playing for the color of the Steelers. You're playing more because they're paying you to play and you have a family to take care of.

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

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys.

It was a really tough transition going from rugby league to AFL.

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

Everything I do, I'm always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I'm playing music. When I'm showering, I've got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.

I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

God somehow makes sure that in international rugby nobody wins ALL the time!

I think the more important thing for a player is to make sure that you're playing and you're playing well and playing consistently. If doesn't matter where you are.

There is a lot of instinct that comes with playing hockey and playing a number of games and playing all the way up; you kind of get a feel for what's gonna happen and make plays off that.

We don't want Welsh rugby to be seen as healthy or upbeat. If we think that, we could become complacent or stagnate.

International rugby is a step up, and this is somewhere you come to get better and improve as a player.

I've always had a rugby ball in my hand, so it was inevitable I was going to play.

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

There was no way I was going to end up in the scrum when I came to rugby - you know, waste my pretty looks.

The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us.

I was captain of the rugby side at Shrivenham - as were my two brothers after me.

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

I used to wrestle when I was younger. It was soccer, wrestling, rugby league and now MMA.

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

I was training my whole younger life to be a sportsman. Rugby was my main thing.

Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!

I was in the football, rugby, cricket and hockey teams at school; bit of squash. Tennis obviously.

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

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

It doesn't matter if you've got the best team in the world, you can't play rugby on your own try-line.

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

I've been teaching myself the fundamentals and being around some good players, but also been learning to play team games, playing 3-on-3s, playing 1-on-1s, playing 5-on-5s, playing 21. There are guys bigger than me on the court, but I've had numerous comparisons to Ty Lawson.

I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.

Not everyone gets to have one of the few super-dominant, all-pro, superstars in this league, and so playing with the pass and playing with space and playing quick is a really good backup.

My sport was my comfort. The routine, the camaraderie, the team... everyone's around you. After rugby you're on your own.

I admire rugged hard men who play rugby because it's something I would never contemplate.

I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.

I have just fallen back in love with rugby league again.

After giving up rugby, I wanted to keep busy.

I was a good reader of a rugby match. I could kick, too.

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

In reality, rugby is finite and unpredictable, so players need to have skills off the pitch too.

When I started my professional rugby career, in 2002, there was one guy filming training if you were lucky.

The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.

There's a massive difference between playing Under-21 football and being on the bench at Chelsea, and playing every week in a league where you are playing for people's livelihoods and helping to pay their mortgages.

When we do, when we're playing physical and we're playing tight, playing with emotion, we play well.

Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

Rugby is a game that's constant. If you are not growing with it, you get left behind.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

When people ask me what I think about when I'm playing, I picture myself as a 10-year-old girl, playing in the park, scoring a goal and then celebrating. That's when I'm playing best.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

Obviously, international rugby is a different level, but there are some really good players around.