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Rugby Quotes About Rugby League
“Rugby League is war without the frills."
- Anon.
"In south west Lancashire, babes 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 (1979)
"The main difference between playing League and Union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday."
- Tom David
"To play rugby league, you need three things: a good pass, a good tackle and a good excuse."
- Anon
"Anyone who doesn't watch rugby league is not a real person. He's a cow's hoof, an ethnic or comes from Melbourne."
- John Singleton Australian (1981)
"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 The Observer (1995)
Gareth Edwards: "The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us."
- Dickie Jeeps (1967)
"I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league."
- Graham Lowe (1995)
"League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules."
- Adrian Hadley (1988)
On the biggest change after returning to the Union code: "It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league."
- Jonathan Davis, A Question of Sport BBC TV (1995)
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