Rugby League Quotes

This is a bit different to the Thursday breakfast I'm used to. It's usually just me and my dog. ~ Shane Tronc

I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married. ~ Brett White

I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there. ~ Willie Mason

We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it ... and I'd hate to see it go. ~ Ben Hannant

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players. ~ Benji Marshall

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious. ~ Keith Senior

This is God's way of saying you've achieved so much, here's your chance to play against the world's best players. There's got to be some reason behind it. It has to be God. It's been created because of Him and the belief the boys have in Him. ~ Jarryd Hayne

It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn. ~ Melina Marchetta

Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand. ~ Craig Coleman

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league. ~ Jonathan Davis

His body is changing. He will strip down and start getting even bigger and stronger over the next few seasons and, seriously, how scary is that? He will be unstoppable. He has just got to realise how good he is and what he can do in the game if he puts his mind to it. ~ Wendell Sailor

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition. ~ Adrian Morley

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want. ~ Michael Greenfield

Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed. ~ Willie Mason

It's going to be tough but I think I was more nervous about playing NRL than I will be playing this match simply because I've got Billy Slater in front of me and there were a lot of expectations. ~ Gareth Widdop

If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league. ~ Russell Crowe

We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips. ~ Brett Morris

St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13. ~ Darren Lockyer

Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It's vital that we play with confidence and take the strength and competition of the engage Super League in to the Four Nations. ~ Paul Sculthorpe

Me and Tricky like playing with each other. ~ Braith Anasta

Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter ... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot. ~ Colin Welland

If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he'd be in it. ~ Brett Morris

I did not think I would make the grade. ~ Clive Churchill

It was bad enough being black...How much lower down the social scale could one go than to be seen as a black, uneducated rugby league player. ~ Cec Thompson

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock. ~ Andrew Johns

Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia? ~ Joe Galuvao

As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football. ~ Brett Finch

The World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played in. I guess it would be good to have more matches of such intensity but, trust me, our bodies would struggle if we were subjected to this every week. There is a limit to how much players can take. ~ Sam Tomkins

My week at school would be good or bad depending on whether Balmain won. I have such fond memories of those suburban grounds, and everything was so undiluted. The players weren't censored, and for me it was a wonderful period of my life when everything was simple and pure. For me, that resonated with rugby league. ~ Matthew Nable

I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to! ~ Jason Ryles

We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous year. We got nothing and were lucky to get home! ~ Dally Messenger

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. ~ Colin Welland

Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook. ~ Jamal Idris

League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules. ~ Adrian Hadley

It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there. ~ Glenn Morrison

I'm a great believer in what happens on the field should stay there. ~ John Hopoate

Obviously a lot has gone on, and I feel I am different person, I haven't had a beer since New Year's, which is pretty big for me. ~ Todd Carney

Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak. ~ Robbie Kearns

I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it - started throwing my hands in the air, drinking red wine and flying off the handle. ~ John Kirwan

I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes. ~ Fran Lebowitz

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there. ~ Joe DiMaggio

Israel is one of the most multiracial and multicultural countries in the world. More than a hundred different countries are represented in its population of 6 million. Consider how the Israeli government spent tens of millions of dollars airlifting more than forty thousand black Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1984 and 1991. Since 2001 Israel has reached out to help others, taking in non-Jewish refugees from Lebanon, the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Vietnam, Liberia, and Congo, and even Bosnian Muslims. How many such refugees have the twenty-two states in the Arab League taken in? The Arab world won't even give Palestinian refugees citizenship in their host countries. Remember, Jews can't live in the neighboring Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan or in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. But Arabs are living as citizens in Israel. What does that tell you about their respect for other cultures? Over 1 million Arabs are full Israeli citizens. An Arab sits on the Supreme Court of Israel. There are Arab political parties expressing views inimical to the State of Israel sitting in the Knesset, Israel's parliament. Women are equal partners in Israel and have complete human rights, as do gays and minorities. Show me an Arab nation with a Jew in its government. Show me an Arab country with half as many Jewish citizens as Israel has Arab citizens. Show me freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and human rights in any Arabic country in the Middle East the way they exist and are prac ~ Brigitte Gabriel

We need a system where all of our teams have the opportunity to compete and to make a few dollars. That's not a bad desire for collective bargaining for a sports league, and it's great for our fans. ~ David Stern

His tiny, naked butt disappeared into the stream as he cried, "Wheeeee! Balls out!"
I think that's a rugby reference," Bertie said. "But don't quote me on that. ~ Lisa Mantchev

I'm anxious to face them (major league pitchers) all, but in reality I'm looking forward most to (Boston's) Pedro Martinez. He was with the major league team that came to Japan in 1996, just before he became a superstar. I'm anxious to see how much he's improved. And I'm anxious to see how much I've improved against him. ~ Ichiro Suzuki

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

Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard sciences. For instance, Darwinists will often compare their theory favorably to Einsteinian physics, claiming that Darwinism is just as well established as general relativity. Yet how many physicists, while arguing for the truth of Einsteinian physics, will claim that general relativity is as well established as Darwin's theory? Zero. ~ William A. Dembski

Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness. ~ Dwight Garner

I try to take it and leave it in God's hands. I try to do what He wants me to do and come out here and perform the best I can for my teammates. That's my responsibility. This is a tough league. Outside of basketball, the lifestyle is tough - the travel. Honestly, I think that responsibility is pretty tough but I don't believe that God gives us anything we can't handle. ~ Jrue Holiday

I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens. ~ Ken Bates

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues. ~ Jerry Coleman

Strange that he'd be wearing God's symbol when he's in league with the devil. ~ Leisa Rayven

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point. ~ Fernando Torres

When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club ~ Robert Pires

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level. ~ Clint Eastwood

Barcelona are always a candidate to win the Champions League. ~ Luis Suarez

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league. ~ Dorothy Parker

If it happens that I score 50 goals, it'll be awesome. Any player in the league would like 50. But I don't keep thinking every day that I have to score in order to reach 50 goals . ~ Zach Parise

When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about ... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me. ~ Gary Sheffield

When it comes to you? Hell no," he said. "With you, I'm so far out of my league I can't even see the league. ~ Jill Shalvis

Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe. ~ Rafael Van Der Vaart

To ACCOUPLE (ACCO'UPLE) v.a.[accoupler, Fr.]To join, to link together. He sent a solemn embassage to treat a peace and league with the king; accoupling it with an article in the nature of a request.Bacon'sHenry VII. ~ Samuel Johnson

Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit. ~ Brian O'Driscoll

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is. ~ Louis C.K.

I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school. ~ Julia Quinn

I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it. ~ John Elway

He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too. ~ S.A. Tawks

The notion, a debatable one, is that the man who knows the problems necessarily knows the answers.

This book has not been successful if it has not suggested some big-league problems, such as:

(1) Should our financial machinery be scrapped?
(2) Should it be further tinkered with, and if so, how much further?
(3) Is capitalism doomed?
(4) What active stock selling under five dollars looks hot just now for a quick turn to pay for the Buick the wife just bought?


There isn't an assistant instructor in economics in any faculty who can't answer these and similar questions rapidly and categorically, and if that is not enough there are a million laymen eager to do so. So I don't feel that my vote is much needed. ~ Fred Schwed Jr.

My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence. ~ Leslie Morgan Steiner

Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale. ~ Joseph Fort Newton

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league. ~ Kevin McCloud

Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd Little means to this franchise, city and league. Aside from his stellar play on the field, he helped make the Broncos relevant in the NFL and strengthened the bond between this team and its fans. He has waited a long time for this honor, and I couldn't be happier for him. ~ Pat Bowlen

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable. ~ Andrew Mehrtens

When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along ~ Bill Shankly

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. ~ Phil Knight

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league. ~ Relient K

I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league. ~ Ilya Kovalchuk