Top 20 Rugby Quotes of the Week

p>7. “It is profoundly disappointing for me that my problems had such an adverse effect on everyone else.”
Phil Vickery — British & Irish Lions front-row prop

8. “I think there is an opportunity there to inflict a psychological blow.”
Dick Muir — Springbok assistant coach

9. “I have never been Heinrich and Heinrich has never been me.”
Schalk Burger Jr. — Springbok loose forward on Heinrich Brussow benched as a result of Burger’s return to the squad

10. “I heard the papers went mad. Sorry for them. Do they know we won the match? We‘ve taken 12 years to beat the Lions, and if we beat them by one point or 20 points it does not matter.”
Peter de Villiers — Springbok coach following the June 20 Test No. 1

11. “I was replacing Springboks with Springboks, not with schoolboys. I made the decision to substitute them because I felt we needed to inject some pace and energy into the game. In any rugby match, there is a period where players go to sleep, so you want to inject new energy.”
Peter de Villiers — Springbok coach

12. “It was a potential banana skin that we’ve got through, it was disappointing to give away the try at the end but I thought the attitude was superb and the conditions were always going to be a leveler. There wasn’t a lot of rugby played.” “It was a million miles from what we want at the weekend.”

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