Jonny Wilkinson Quotes

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all.

I don't like kicking the ball a lot.

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.

For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.

The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.

I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.

I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.

I only get the points because I have team-mates who do the work and put me in the position to get them.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.