I was eight years old and I was playing rugby for my local club.

It was a really tough transition going from rugby league to AFL.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys.

In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

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

I definitely want to play rugby at the top level, international rugby.

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

Wherever I am in my life, it's because rugby has enabled me to do that.

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

I wouldn't particularly say I liked rugby but it got us playing football.

I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.

Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.

God somehow makes sure that in international rugby nobody wins ALL the time!

My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

I was captain of the rugby side at Shrivenham - as were my two brothers after me.

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

I've always had a rugby ball in my hand, so it was inevitable I was going to play.

Rugby is a game that's constant. If you are not growing with it, you get left behind.

There will be nothing better than playing international rugby. It's a dream come true.

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

I admire rugged hard men who play rugby because it's something I would never contemplate.

I used to wrestle when I was younger. It was soccer, wrestling, rugby league and now MMA.

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

I will support Ireland at rugby, but when England and Ireland are playing, I sit on the fence.

I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.

As a rugby player, you strive to be an All Black, win a World Cup, and win a Super Rugby title.

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

In reality, rugby is finite and unpredictable, so players need to have skills off the pitch too.

I really want to remain involved in rugby. I want to continue and have an influence on the game.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

I was in the football, rugby, cricket and hockey teams at school; bit of squash. Tennis obviously.

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

Obviously, international rugby is a different level, but there are some really good players around.

A rugby tour is like sex. When its good it's great, and when it's bad - hey! It's still pretty good!

I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

You blindfold yourself and spin around for 10 times and then open your eyes and try to chase it down.

It doesn't matter if you've got the best team in the world, you can't play rugby on your own try-line.

International rugby is a step up, and this is somewhere you come to get better and improve as a player.

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