Rugby is a sport where the unusual happens regularly and the commonplace never.

Rugby is an art of war in which each player must understand that every action has consequences.

Football is a gentleman’s game played by beasts. Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen.

Rugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.

Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

There is no doubt that rugby is the best thing that ever came out of England.

In rugby, as in life, character is everything.

Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance of the rules, failed to release it. As a result I spent the whole afternoon at the bottom of a muddy pile of stronger boys. It was character forming.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

To succeed in rugby, you’ve got to be mad in the head and soft in the heart.