#rugby

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#considerable #english #english school #event #games

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that. ↗

— Joe Theismann

#beer #each #go #great #helmets

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#aspects #contentious #favour #game #get

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#being #i #japan #like #playing

For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#best #club #continue #embrace #enjoy

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. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#cannot #cards #collection #i #like

I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#believed #breathe #days #dream #driven

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. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#been #blessed #england #experienced #fills

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#black #get #i #knew #lot

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#any #bryan #dad #diego #had