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I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.
Alexander Hanson
Rugby
Bit
Tougher
Football
Like
Huge
American
Fan
American Football
Which
Union
I just loved going fast. I still enjoy go-karting. I was also good at rugby, and my dad wanted me to be a sportsman, but I never thought I could do sports professionally.
Alfie Allen
Good
Me
Sports
Thought
Enjoy
Rugby
Could
Never
Also
Sportsman
Still
Going
Just
Wanted
Loved
Dad
Professionally
Fast
I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.
Alun Wyn Jones
Chasing
Gone
Rugby
Kid
Pretty
Counted
Never
Well
Another
Egg
Just
Fat
Playing
I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?
Alun Wyn Jones
Rugby
Good-Looking
Sing
Got
Educated
Ridiculous
Play
You do not have time in international rugby to stop and think, 'This is tough.' It's more a case of, 'Let's crack on.' Where's your next job? Fill a hole for someone who has just made a tackle?
Alun Wyn Jones
Time
You
Job
Made
Tough
Think
Rugby
Case
Someone
Tackle
More
Crack
Just
Stop
Hole
Next
Your
Who
International
Fill
I'm thankful for the collaboration between the WRU and Ospreys, which will look after my best interests and enables me to play the best rugby possible.
Alun Wyn Jones
Thankful
Best
Me
Will
Rugby
Collaboration
Possible
Best Interests
Between
Look
Enables
After
Which
Interests
Play
It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.
Alun Wyn Jones
Business
People
Rugby
Back
Back Up
Phrases
About
Up
Brand
Gets
Sustainability
Etc
Really
Using
Start
A bugbear of mine is bragging rights in regional derbies: it would be a lot more worth to the regional game if we did something special in European rugby.
Alun Wyn Jones
Game
Rights
Worth
Rugby
Mine
Would
Would-Be
Something
More
Something Special
Bragging
Lot
Did
Regional
Special
European
The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.
Alun Wyn Jones
You
Losing
Ladder
Differences
Rugby
Winning
Higher
Smaller
Between
Go
Up
Get
Games
Ultimately, we are professional rugby people, and we focus on the rugby. That's the easy bit. We are not politicians, so we don't have to delve too much into that.
Alun Wyn Jones
People
Too Much
Focus
Politicians
Too
Rugby
Bit
Easy
Ultimately
Much
Professional
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'
Anthony Browne
Age
Late
Rugby
Unlikely
Small
Until
Quiet
Twenties
Played
Player
I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.
Ben Mendelsohn
Me
Dog
Three
Saved
Rugby
League
Around
Were
Years
Unemployed
Straight
Sat
Things
Sydney
Basically
Two
I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.
Charlie Bewley
Life
Me
My Life
Rugby
Inspiration
Most
Provided
Lot
Snowboarding
Which
Then
Switched
Played
One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.
Chuck Todd
Game
Man
Win
Impossible
Rugby
Kid
Hungry
Bizarre
Carrying
Some
Cross
Something
More
Football
Between
Know
Because
Ball
Still
Target
Person
Which
Games
Found
Why
Enjoyed
Played
I was captain of the rugby side at Shrivenham - as were my two brothers after me.
Dick Strawbridge
Me
Side
Rugby
Brothers
Were
After
Captain
Two
As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'
Francois Hougaard
You
Game
Rugby
Everyone
Say
Criticise
Soon
Quick
Average
Suck
Playing
Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.
Franz Beckenbauer
You
Game
Every
Rugby
Our
Minutes
Football
Also
American
Move
Different
American Football
Soccer
Moving
Play
Interrupt
Two
Interruption
I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.
George Vecsey
Great
Sports
Own
Rugby
Say
Tell
Would
Give
Never
Great Team
Got
Coming
Up
Hockey
Anybody
Hold
Them
Team
Team Sports
Many
Here
Basketball
Look at how a caretaker has worked for the England rugby team in the Six Nations - they've done fantastically. Everyone's got an edge. No one's sure of a place, and everyone has an incentive. So I'd back the FA if they decided not to go for a full-time manager yet.
Glenn Hoddle
Edge
Rugby
Back
Everyone
Look
Sure
Got
How
Go
Manager
Done
Six
Nations
Decided
Place
Worked
Incentive
Team
Full-Time
England
As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.
Glenn Turner
You
Winter
Enough
Cricket
Rugby
Summer
Kid
Silly
New
Perhaps
Hockey
New Zealand
Zealand
Play
Played
I grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic, I was only ever good at swimming.
Greg Davies
Good
Swimming
Rugby
Seven
Asthmatic
Border
Born
Only
Could
Hospital
Drove
Over
Welsh
Up
Wales
Grew
Miles
Skinny
Dad
Away
Ever
Play
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
Hamish Bowles
Me
Sports
School
First
Cricket
Rugby
High
High School
Division
Put
Still
Soccer
Coaches
Reasons
Teams
Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'
Henry Rollins
Gay
Rugby
Wrestling
Football
Least
Film
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.
Iwan Rheon
Time
You
Somewhere
Band
Rugby
Kind
Know
Liked
Alternative
Opposed
Quite
Middle
Middle Ground
Skateboarding
Ground
Team
Popular
Thing
Things
Playing
I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.
Jack Butland
Dreams
Rugby
Had
Being
Professional
Player
I know my dad would have loved me to have played rugby. He was a No. 8. I started off playing centre and ended up playing at the back of the scrum, No. 8 as well, just picking it up and running with it.
Jack Butland
Me
Rugby
Back
Would
Running
He
Picking
Know
Well
Off
Up
Ended
Just
Loved
Centre
Dad
Played
Started
Playing
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