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RUGBY QUOTES.
Rugby World Cup Quotes
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“Remember that rugby is a team game; all 14 of you make sure you pass the ball to Jonah.”
Sean Fitzpatrick to the All Blacks before the 1995 World Cup semi-final.
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“There’s no doubt about it, he’s a big bastard”
Gavin Hastings on Jonah Lomu at the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
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“We want consistency, but we don’t want a consistent referee to consistently blow the whistle.” Murray Mexted
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“If you can’t take a punch, you should play table tennis.”
French skipper and coach Pierre Berbizier.
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“In my time, I’ve had my knee out, broken my collarbone, had my nose smashed, a rib broken, lost a few teeth, and ricked my back; but as soon as I get a bit of bad luck I’m going to quit the game.”
J.W. Robinson
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“Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.”
Tony O’Reilly
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“I’m just off for a quiet pint. Followed by fifteen noisy ones.”
Gareth Chilcott
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“I think you enjoy the game more if you don’t know the rules. Anyway, you’re on the same wavelength as the referee.”
Jonathan Davies
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“Of course they don’t play to any sort of pattern and if you’re not careful you will start playing to that pattern.”
Mike Davies
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“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.”
Phil Bennett in a team talk before facing England in 1977
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“I’m still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby’s first millionaire five years ago.”
David Campese
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“Nobody ever beats Wales at rugby, they just score more points.”
Graham Mourie
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“The French are predictably unpredictable.”
Andrew Mehrtens, after the All Blacks lost to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup.
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“I don’t know about us not having a Plan B when things went wrong, we looked like we didn’t have a Plan A.”
Geoff Cooke, after England were beaten by New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup semifinal.
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“Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.”
Chris Laidlaw
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