The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.
They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).
You blindfold yourself and spin around for 10 times and then open your eyes and try to chase it down.
I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.
I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.
Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.
The French are predictably unpredictable.
I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket. . . I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
Good big blokes are better than good little blokes. Then again, good little blokes are better than dud big blokes. And dud big blokes should play something other than Rugby
The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.
Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.
You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that.
I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.
Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.
I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.
If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.
It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.
For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.