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“I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.”

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Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby, I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.”

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Author:Jonah Lomu

“Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.”

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Author:Paul Murray

“Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.”

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Author:Peter Cook

“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.”

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Author:Gordon Brown

“Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.”

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Author:Tanc Sade

“In 2011 I stopped playing rugby for England so during the Six Nations, which is on during February and March, I was able to grab a week's skiing. But I still had to take it pretty easy because I didn't want to get injured while I was playing for Gloucester. In 2013, when I retired fully from rugby, I finally had the chance to go a couple of times a season.”

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Author:Mike Tindall

“I was an ambassador for Betway during the Rugby World Cup and at the moment I'm working as an ambassador for Artemis Investment Management. I also organised the first Rugby Aid in 2015. We had celebrities playing rugby against former England team players and raised a ton of money for Rugby For Heroes [a charity for former servicemen and women]. Only one celeb got crunched quite badly - Jaime Laing from Made in Chelsea ended up with cracked ribs.”

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

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Author:Javier Bardem

“I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.”

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Author:Charlie Bewley

“I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin”

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Author:Roger Bannister

“Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence or be abusive to others, especially towards his partner and family. I am proud to support the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.”

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Author:Danny Care

“It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.”

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Author:Jonathan Davis

“In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.”

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

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Good big blokes are better than good little blokes. Then again, good little blokes are better than dud big blokes. And dud big blokes should play something other than Rugby”

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Author:Bob Dwyer

“If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.”

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Author:Pierre Berbizier

“I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.”

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Author:Vernon Davis

“I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.”

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Author:Colin Meads

“I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.”

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Author:Graham Lowe

“I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.”

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Author:Nigel Melville

“Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.”

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Author:Pierre Danos

“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.”

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Author:Ryan Giggs

“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.”

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Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.”

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Author:Douglas Booth