Here is RUCK’s list of our favourite funny sporting quotes from the sport of Rugby.
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.”
Andrew Mehrtens.
After biting Sean Fitzpatrick’s ear: “For an 18-month suspension, I feel I probably should have torn it off. Then at least I could say, ‘Look, I’ve returned to South Africa with the guy’s ear.’”
Johan le Roux
“If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.”
Will Carling (1995)
“I’m still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby’s first millionaire five years ago.”
David Campese (1991)
“Every time I went to tackle him, Horrocks went one way, Taylor went the other, and all I got was the bloody hyphen.”
Nick England, On trying to stop Phil Horrocks-Taylor
“Don’t ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I’m someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.”
Robert Norster (1994)