Rugby snap shots

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