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I take a laid-back approach to a lot of things in life and, at the end of the day, rugby's just a game.
I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?
If I hadn't had the rugby field to get rid of my aggression I would have been locked up a long time ago.
It's definitely the hardest tackle I've taken in my life but I'm still breathing and that's a good sign.
I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.
I came from a rugby school and rugby nation, but I fancied giving football a go, and luckily, it paid off.
There was no way I was going to end up in the scrum when I came to rugby - you know, waste my pretty looks.
I thought that if I could play rugby on TV, I'd be able to get my mum a house. That was the driving factor.
I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.
When I started my professional rugby career, in 2002, there was one guy filming training if you were lucky.
I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.
Going to a final and winning is the best thing in life, and it makes rugby no longer a job. It makes it fun.
I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.
You're not going to please everyone, but then, it's not about pleasing people: it's about winning rugby games.
Rugby is a sport in which you can lose heavily one week and still come back and smash the opposition the next.
I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.
I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.
The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.
Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.
Bowen is a Welsh name and the family background is more rugby than football, but we're English through and through.
We don't want Welsh rugby to be seen as healthy or upbeat. If we think that, we could become complacent or stagnate.
I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.
Rugby is a game where everything is connected - from your kicking game to your defence to your set piece and attack.
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'
I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so you are in the action.
Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.
It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.
The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'
I played Rugby League at school but once I got to the age of 14, I had to make a choice and decided to stick with boxing.
I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.
My sport was my comfort. The routine, the camaraderie, the team... everyone's around you. After rugby you're on your own.
The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.
Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.
After my second film, 'Simhadri,' which was a very big hit, I made 'Sye,' a small college movie with a rugby union backdrop.
With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.
I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.
People can be really famous in Wales for rugby, but outside of Wales nobody really has a clue who you are or what you've done.
Every rugby player in Australia and New Zealand or wherever they are from wants to play in the World Cup, and I am no different.
I've lost count of the times I've been asked what I do for a living. When I say rugby people say: 'Yes, but what's your other job?'
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.
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
A lot of people make the error of thinking rugby is going to last forever and they need to quickly discover that that isn't the case.
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.
I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.
My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.
As far as exercise, I play a lot of lacrosse and rugby, and I'm an avid distance swimmer. Nope, none of that is true. I do walk a lot, though.