You’ve got to get your first tackle in early, even if it’s late.
Ray Gravell

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.
Nigel Melville

Don’t ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I’m someone who cries when he watches ‘Little House on the Prairie’.
Bob Norster

The relationship between the Welsh and the English is based on trust and understanding. They don’t trust us and we don’t understand them.
Dudley Wood

If you can’t take a punch, you should play table tennis.
Pierre Berbizier

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.
Chris Laidlaw

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 football is a game I can’t claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end. In order to squelch this program, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.
P. G. Wodehouse

Rugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.
Richard Burton

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

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.
Gordon Brown

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

The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.
Jean-Pierre Rives

It’s a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
Jonah Lomu

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played – there are no yellow or red cards in my collection – but I cannot say I’m an angel.
Jonny Wilkinson

Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient… That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball?
Peter Cook

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other’s ears off.
Elizabeth Taylor

May you rest in peace, every minute of every day, knowing that the best of what is, is coming your way; surely, inexorably, in ways you can’t even imagine!

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I’m going to miss mine by just a few days. (Garrison Keillor)

The life of the dead is placed in the heart of the living. (Cicero)

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. (John Jensen)

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time. ( Susan Cheever )

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived. ( Henry David Thoreau)

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. ~ Christine

Gone but not forgotten, always in our thoughts. Rest In Peace

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore)

You haven’t heard stress until you heard the cries of my mama. (Jay-Z)

I’d rather die enormous than live dormant. (Jay-Z)

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa. (Jay-Z)

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. (Eminem)

Sometimes you just gotta let shit go and say to “hell with it” and move on. (Eminem)

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway. (Eminem)

You stop at all of the greasy nasty-ass truck stops and you never get a proper rest. But every night you party like it’s the last night that you’re ever going to have to party. (Busta Rhymes)

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain’t gotta hold your tongue . (Busta Rhymes)

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business. (Nas)

I broke into shakespeare’s tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game. (Nas)

Over 80 million records sold and I ain’t got to do it with tens or eleven year olds. (Dr Dre)

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! (Kurt Cobain)

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’. (John Lennon)

I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear!When I wear leather, I feel like a Black Panther! (Freddie Mercury)

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. (Frank Zappa)

Now in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said, ‘We didn’t get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won’t be just pretty and beautiful all the time,’ and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. ‘We’re going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world’s a horrible place, because it didn’t give us everything we cried for.’ Right? (John Lennon)

Rock and Roller cola wars, I can’t take it anymore. (Billy Joel)

“Rock and Roll” is about me. If I hadn’t heard rock and roll on the radio, I would have had no idea there was life on this planet. Which would have been devastating to think that everything, everywhere was like it was where I come from. That would have been profoundly discouraging. Movies didn’t do it for me. TV didn’t do it for me. It was the radio that did it. (Lou Reed)

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. (Voltaire1)

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them. ( Louis Armstrong)

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it. (Charles de Saint-Evremond)

Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. ( Samuel Johnson)

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. ( Ernest Hemingway)

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. ( Arthur E. Morgan)