Tana Umaga Quotations

To play 100 games for the Brumbies and more than 100 Tests is mind-boggling with the game becoming more physical and quicker,

No one backs them this week and that's a very dangerous thing for us. We're the only ones that give them any credit really.

I can't do half the things he can, I'm feeling my age and he looks like a spring chicken it's a great effort from the guy.

If we make breaks we need to finish them off. We need to be clinical enough but also composed enough that if the opportunity's not there, then we have the patience to attack where they are weak again.

If we make breaks we need to finish them off.

We've got to work on everything in our game and make sure our game's up to speed.

We lost that one in Cape Town and that's in the back of everyone's mind, and being at home we want to do well,

He was instrumental in building the All Blacks tradition. We're pleased for the chance to pay our respects

I was told there was no malice in it, and I have to take that at face value, but a bad tackle is a bad tackle.

I still stand by the fact I was a little surprised that nothing ever did come of it,

We were very happy at the end of the first half and decided to give up by the look of it,

We were lucky to hold them out and get what we got but we're happy with it. We created a lot of things again and again they lived off our mistakes. It's the way they've been playing and it's obviously successful for them.

We'll take the win for sure, but there were times out there when we lacked composure.

To the Springboks' credit, they came all this way and never gave up as you saw on the scoreboard and in the way they played,

We all love to be playing rugby and to get a good lead-up to the grand slam you need to be playing good football,

We just had to stay focused on what we had to do,

The scoreboard reflects exactly how close this game was,

The surprise aspect Clive was trying to work on didn't exactly work as it was meant to,

It's about us concentrating and being composed and not chasing the game as individuals,

It really is a perfect situation for Australia,

It's obvious that they understand our power out wide, which is why they try to stop the supply getting out there. We still believe we can get the ball wide,

It's something we have been working on for a long time and we felt that we wanted to do it at home. But . . . we still had to perform.

It's day by day at the moment, ... I'd like to be running by tomorrow to give me and the team an indication of where I am and whether I will be okay to play.

I need to get some games and, playing for Wellington, there is a bit of sentiment there as well.

But when we were under pressure we showed character to hold on. In the last 20 minutes some questions were asked of us and we came up with the answers.

He's probably done a lot of homework on us and he's probably found some weaknesses that we've found ourselves but also some that we didn't really think of,

If I carried all that sort of stuff on my shoulders going into a game, I wouldn't be able to get out there,

The Lions tour will be the biggest thing to hit New Zealand since Lord of the Rings.