I wasn’t, you know, Mr Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.
I thought I would have a quiet pint. . . and about 17 noisy ones.
I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.
Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.
Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.
I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.
Andy Ellis - the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago.
Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.
In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.
I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.
Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.
I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.
He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.
A rugby tour is like sex. When its good it's great, and when it's bad - hey! It's still pretty good!
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket. . . I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
The French are predictably unpredictable.