I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.
To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.
I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.
I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.
I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.
The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games.
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.
I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.
I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.
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.
I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.
