Matt Dawson Quotations

On absolute pure form, there could have been no argument,

I always promised myself I would never flog myself into the ground. You can't underestimate the effect rugby has on your body.

He'd be in my side any day of the week. He's a big-time player. He reminds me of Dan Luger. Put him in a big event and he'll deliver, time after time after time. In the pressure games Mark always comes up with the goods.

The experience I've had has proved that coming here was the right move,

Even though we would have had an away quarter-final you never know what Wasps can do, ... We are that sort of side that can come up a level on the day, as we showed in the Premiership final.

It's definitely been the right thing for me to do - the timing of it was just perfect.

In 2005, there seemed to be a lot of coaches around from different countries and that did not dilute their ability,

Geech was very influential in the middle of my career, at a time when many promising scrum halves can falter in their development,

The England management know that we won't overplay them. We want them in the best shape for England and Wasps.