101 Rugby Quotes

Jardine Crombie

Description

Rugby, the beastly game played by gentlemen... Legend has it that in 1843 at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, a student called William Webb Ellis one day ignored the rules of football, caught the ball in his arms and ran with it towards the goal line, more or less inventing rugby as he did so. In 1845 the first codified rules of the game were drawn up by the school's prefects and the game's popularity spread throughout the UK in the 1850s and '60s. It's now a sport that is followed by millions of fans throughout the world. This little compilation bring together 101 quotes, mostly from players, but also coaches, spectators, commentators, actors and comedians, and reveals the humour and the passion in the sport.

Informations

• Publié par: Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited
• Date de parution: 22 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781291333077
• Langue: English

Extrait

INTRODUCTION
 
 
Rugby, the beastly game played by gentlemen...
 
Legend has it that in 1843 at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, a student called William Webb Ellis one day ignored the rules of football, caught the ball in his arms and ran with it towards the goal line, more or less inventing rugby as he did so. In 1845 the first codified rules of the game were drawn up by the school’s prefects and the game’s popularity spread throughout the UK in the 1850s and ‘60s. It’s now a sport that is followed by millions of fans throughout the world.
 
This little compilation bring together 101 quotes, mostly from players, but also coaches, spectators, commentators, actors and comedians, and reveals the humour and the passion in the sport.
A
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All Blacks
David Andrew
Anon
 
“Remember that rugby is a team game; all 14 of you make sure you pass the ball to Jonah”
A fax to All Blacks before the 1995 World Cup semi-final
 
“Subdue and penetrate”
All Blacks motto
 
“To the popular consciousness, rugby is as Welsh as coal mining, male voice choirs, ‘How Green Was My Valley’, Dylan Thomas, and Tom Jones”
David Andrew
 
“Football is a game played by men running around pretending to be hurt; rugby is a game played by men pretending not to be”
Anon
 
“Scrum: one man pushing four men’s heads up three men’s backsides”
Anon
 
 
B
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John Bale
Bill Beaumont
Phil Bennett
Henry Blaha
Richard Burton
 
“Rugby is characteristically Welsh”
John Bale
Sport historian
 
“If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week”
Bill Beaumont
 
“Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They’ve taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our houses and they only live in them for a fortnight every 12 months. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We’ve been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English and that’s who you are playing this afternoon”
Welsh captain Phil Bennett’s pre-game pep talk before facing England, 1977
 
“Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman’s game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts”
Henry Blaha
Football player
 
“Rugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing”
Richard Burton
Actor