"These, then, are the friends I have made and the experiences I have had during my rugger days, and my only regret is that those days are not all still before me. What a great game it is, this rugger of ours, and how much there is in it beyond the mere meeting of strength and strength! To me it is must always be the best game in the world, not for its qualities as a game alone, but for the spirit in which it is played.
Without doubt it is a hard game, and that is one of its chief virtues. A man who plays it must be ready to give and take hard knocks, but he will give and take them with a grin. He will need courage and determination and a sense of humour, and he must learn the meaning of unselfishness. It may be that rugger has an element of danger about it, and people often ask whether it is worth risking serious injury in what, after all, is only a game. It would, I think, be a poor sort of game that had no sort of risk to be faced, and it is one of the glories of rugger that you can put your shoulder into a man with all your strength and bring him down with a crash, knowing that if you stave in a rib or two of his he will bear no grudge against you, while if he knocks your teeth out in handling you off it is merely your own fault for tackling him too high." - W.W. Wakefield, Rugger, 1927.
| "The object of rugby is for fourteen players to give a fifteenth a yard start."
--Charles Saxon |
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Beer is obviously a major part of the rugby culture; here are some beer quotes from Tom "the Colonel" Loesel:
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. - Frank Zappa
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. - Winston Churchill
He was a wise man who invented beer. - Plato
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. - Catherine Zandonella
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. - W.C. Fields
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. - Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. - David Daye
Work is the curse of the drinking class. - Oscar Wilde
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. - Dave Barry
I drink to make other people interesting. - George Jean Nathan
They who drink beer will think beer. - Washington Irving
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. - a "Deep Thought" by Jack Handy
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. - Dave Barry
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. - Humphrey Bogart
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. - David Moulton
People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot. - Capital Brewery
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. - Kaiser Wilhelm
I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer. - Homer Simpson
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. - "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Ernest Hemingway
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. - Dean Martin
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. - His reply
Fitness Suggestions for Rugby - By Kevin Tipton
| "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Ecclesiastes 9:10 - "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." |
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Meeting minutes from the 1999 annual business meeting/elections
| "All battles are won before they are fought." - Sun Tzu |
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| "In our country, true teams rarely exist . . . social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit . . . Yet these rugby players, with their muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold onto a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its memories will be a permanent delight. The women and men who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their existence is only our own." - Victor Cahn |
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| "Fight on, my men," sayes Sir Andrew Bartton, "I am hurt but I am not slain; I'll lay me downe and bleed a while And then I'll rise and fight againe." Sir Andrew Bartton, a Scots ballad |
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Report on the 12/16/98 Team Meeting at Mama's.
Fairfax Connection article about rugby and the WSRFC. (A reporter came out one day to practice.)
| I'd rather have a player with 50% ability and 100% desire because the guy with 100% desire you know is going to play every day so you can make the system fit into what he can do. The other guy, the guy with 100% ability and 60% desire, can screw up your whole system because one day he'll be out there waltzing around. - Vince Lombardi |
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