"This guy is like a legend. Every time we are training, every time we are at a game, every time he opens his mouth he just emanates greatness."

- Canadian and Leicester winger Winston Stanley offers his loving appraisal of clubmate and England international Martin Johnson.

"Myself, Michael Galwey, Paddy Johns, Peter Clohessy, we're a dying breed. We all went to the school of hard knocks and the university of getting the s*** kicked out of us. I used to go to Paris and I was bricking it. I was crapping myself when we played the All Blacks as well."

- Gary Halpin describes how he felt playing international rugby when Ireland were ostensibly amateur against some great sides who had already moved well into professionalism.