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Rugby snap shots

By Online Editors
Monday 6 Aug 2012

We bring you a few interesting quotes to explain the game of Rugby Union.


"I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off." - Elizabeth Taylor (1972)


"Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the centre of the city." - Oscar Wilde


"Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts." - Henry Blaha


"Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen." Winston Churchill


"Rugby is played by men with odd shaped balls." - Car bumper sticker


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


"Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that." - Joe Theismann

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