Quotes & Sayings About Rugby As A Sport

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

Write down the date, because I'm getting that tattoo five years from now, okay?"
The tears that had been only a gloss over Ryan's eyes now spilled down his temples. "You're doing this on purpose." Ryan laughed and gently punched his arm.
"Just a little bit." Liam rolled Ryan to his back and lapped off the salty wetness. His chest was swelling with joy — K.A. Merikan

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket ... I'm an outdoors kind of guy. — Jai Courtney

A mass of ignorant, culturally degraded citizens easily becomes an immense drag on the system. They become easy prey to demagogues and applaud every attempt to undermine the foundations of that "natural liberty" which they have enjoyed in the first place. — Arthur Herman

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns. — Naguib Mahfouz

Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable. — Joseph E. Stiglitz

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport. — Junior Seau

I am not sure I have the strength to resist this. — David Levithan

The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the main reason why the Rugby World Cup, the Pacific islands excepted, was so desperately white, the Springboks included. — Martin Jacques

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour. — Auberon Waugh

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ... — Ivy Compton-Burnett

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level. — Clint Eastwood

We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it ... and I'd hate to see it go. — Ben Hannant

Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball, wrote in the New York Times in February 2009, The virus that infected professional baseball in the 1990s, the use of statistics to find new and better ways to value players and strategies, has found its way into every major sport. Not just basketball and football, but also soccer and cricket and rugby and, for all I know, snooker and darts - — Anonymous

When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law. — Daniel Cudmore

Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That's not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront. — Mallory Ortberg

Dhoni has been an outstanding captain. His record as captain is simply terrific. He has done wonders to Indian cricket. — Sourav Ganguly

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. — Alan Alda

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker. — William Ames

I like rugby - I watch it from time to time. It's basically football without pads but probably a little bit more dangerous than football. You've got to be a lot tougher in that sport - but I definitely like watching rugby and watching those guys knock each other around. It looks like a fun sport. — Reggie Bush

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport. — Yoshiro Mori

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this. — Gordon Brown

It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
The mind that knows it is destroyed by time. — Wallace Stevens

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. — Heyneke Meyer

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. — Mike Krzyzewski