14 Quotes by Mike Tindall

I am sure that when I get to my first game there will be a few nerves about how the shoulder will hang up, but I only know one way, and that will be forward into as many people as possible,

Italy, with all the players they've got in the French Championship and the Heineken Cup are a good quality outfit. I don't think you will see anyone smash them and I think you are going to see a big scalp for them before too much longer.

You always want to play well when you back to your old club,

England expectations are always high, and should be so,

I was an ambassador for Betway during the Rugby World Cup and at the moment I'm working as an ambassador for Artemis Investment Management. I also organised the first Rugby Aid in 2015. We had celebrities playing rugby against former England team players and raised a ton of money for Rugby For Heroes [a charity for former servicemen and women]. Only one celeb got crunched quite badly - Jaime Laing from Made in Chelsea ended up with cracked ribs.

In 2011 I stopped playing rugby for England so during the Six Nations, which is on during February and March, I was able to grab a week's skiing. But I still had to take it pretty easy because I didn't want to get injured while I was playing for Gloucester. In 2013, when I retired fully from rugby, I finally had the chance to go a couple of times a season.

A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

With ski jumping I reached a plateau and the more I did it the worse I got.

I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard.