Top 1200 Playing Rugby Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If anyone out there is mildly curious about rugby, I'd recommend a weekend spent watching the Six Nations. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

I know what it feels like to be one of those conservative rugby lads because I went to a similar school growing up.

I remember I'd be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I'd come home with sore feet, but wanting to do the same the day after. That passion made us keep playing. Playing in the dirt was our daily joy.

If I hadn't had the rugby field to get rid of my aggression I would have been locked up a long time ago.

The advantage of playing in Toronto is not playing for one city, you're playing for a country.

I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. The fun of playing an assassin is that I've never killed anybody. The fun of playing a brilliant musician is that I don't actually play any instruments.

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

To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.

The sports are almost different cultures so saying I prefer one to the other is wrong. Rugby union is guided by a lot of rules, league by the players.

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.

It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!

Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don't be afraid to lose. Have fun while you're busy playing hard and playing smart.

Mum used to take us to Breach Candy on the number 63 bus. After school, we'd swim, ride horses, play rugby.

I've got bigger legs than my husband, who's a rugby player, so trust me, if I was going to intentionally flash a part of my body, it wouldn't be my thighs!

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

I had to write 1500 words on advertising and marketing at the weekend for my business management course, and you can't think about rugby while you are doing that!

I went to a school two hours away from where I lived because it was the best rugby school in the country.

The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.

I am so extremely busy with what I am doing myself. When I am not playing music, I am usually doing other things. Playing around with my Ferraris and playing tennis and things like that. What I understand, there is a new group of kids that are very serious about playing, which is great; I think that is a good thing.

A rugby tour is like sex. When its good it's great, and when it's bad - hey! It's still pretty good!

Rugby is a sport in which you can lose heavily one week and still come back and smash the opposition the next.

They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

I take a laid-back approach to a lot of things in life and, at the end of the day, rugby's just a game.

When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.

It's only when you leave the rugby bubble that you understand that negative criticism is not personal, it's reality because we don't always get everything right.

Every rugby player in Australia and New Zealand or wherever they are from wants to play in the World Cup, and I am no different.

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?

If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

There's a roller coaster effect when you're playing good. Everything seems to go your way. But once you start playing bad, you're playing bad.

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

The music has a better feeling when you're responding to what's going on. Music is like playing handball, playing catch with someone, not playing golf. Everywhere the ball bounces is where you respond to it.

I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so I've been playing the violin since I was 11. I started playing the piano when I was 11, and I started playing the guitar when I was 10.

I really want to remain involved in rugby. I want to continue and have an influence on the game.

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'

I'm from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything, I always felt I've been tough, and that my tolerance for pain is pretty high.

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

I played Rugby League at school but once I got to the age of 14, I had to make a choice and decided to stick with boxing.

The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this all-around energy that would be happening because, at the same time we'd be playing in church, we'd be playing in the city jazz band under Reggie Edwards.

With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.

I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted to start playing music. It felt like the only thing that I could do in response to that. And I've been playing ever since.

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand.

Playing normal is hard; especially playing normal that's not you. The biggest challenge in playing Alicia is trying to make a teenage girl seem fully formed and not the quintessential moody teenager with a quippy, sassy line here and there.

Ultimately, rugby players are like surfers. You look for the perfect wave, but you don't always find it. And if you did, you'd probably pack up and try something else.

A lot of people make the error of thinking rugby is going to last forever and they need to quickly discover that that isn't the case.

After my second film, 'Simhadri,' which was a very big hit, I made 'Sye,' a small college movie with a rugby union backdrop.

It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.

If a player is playing IPL and earning money, it's not his fault that he's not playing for India. He is not quitting. He is playing first-class, one-day cricket and IPL. If selectors don't pick him, what can he do?

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.

I thought that if I could play rugby on TV, I'd be able to get my mum a house. That was the driving factor.

I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so you are in the action.

I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

I was never ever attracted to any of my rugby mates; I was really good at switching off my emotions and I wouldn't have even considered crossing that line.