42 Quotes by Clive Woodward

Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

You don't get lucky in sport.

Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.

'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second...

Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.

We set out to be the No. 1 team in the world and the only time you can say that is when you have the World Cup sitting here with you, ... I hope it kicks on to a really golden era for English rugby.

Simon is a class player and I feel for him but he has the character to come back from this and we wish him well in his recovery,

One of the major successes of the tournament so far has been the refereeing, because I can't recall many people talking about it. There have been very few bad incidents, hardly any citing offenses and (Watson's) looking forward to tomorrow's game and so are we.

If we're brutally honest, this is the game we look forward to most, ... a little more spice following our meeting in the World Cup semifinal.