This collection holds 291 rugby quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Kevin Spacey, Brian O'driscoll and Beau Ryan.

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I don't watch rugby.

Rugby takes its toll.

I have more critics than Hitler.

A game of rugby is a work of art!

Rugby's all I've ever wanted to do.

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.

It's basically the same, just darker.

We're going to tear those boys apart.

I never had a concussion playing rugby.

The French are predictably unpredictable.

Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

I get too excited about football and rugby.

International rugby is an unforgiving arena.

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

After giving up rugby, I wanted to keep busy.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.

Your hands can't catch what your eyes can't see.

I don’t believe in magic. I believe in hard work.

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

Rugby and wrestling are sports for real athletes.

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.

I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.

Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start.

I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.

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

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

If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.

It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.

South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone.

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

One moment of magic, or one big moment to capture the match.

Andy Ellis - the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago.

I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.

I know part of me is going to die when I stop playing rugby.

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

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

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

I was eight years old and I was playing rugby for my local club.

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

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

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

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