Richie McCaw Quotes (10 Quotes)

They threw everything at us. Defenses are going to win you games and that's what we needed at the end.

Four points out of that...we've got to be a little bit happy. We didn't make it easy for ourselves. When you get behind on the scoreboard the thing is not to panic and we held together and believed to could do it.

We didn't feel like ourselves in the first half. We realized at halftime that we had to hold onto the ball, work harder and we did that in the second half. But it certainly wasn't polished.

We had to get up for a tough match last week against the Blues and we had to get up again this week. The Chiefs threw everything at us and we had to defend all night but we got away with a win.

He's pretty good. He lets you know where you stand, which is good. From the experience I've had in the past he's been pretty consistent.

I'm relieved, to be quite honest. We got put under a heap of pressure and the boys defended well but possibly we concentrated too much on defending rather than keeping on attacking.

After a game, no matter what the score is, you come off the ground from playing an African team feeling sore. You feel like you've been in a real physical battle but some days against the Australian teams it's not like that.

We're happy we won well after having a big lead at halftime. We've been in the same position in the last couple of games and we haven't finished it off.

We just kept coughing up the pill and ended up defending the whole time.

It wasn't pretty out there. It felt a bit stop-start to us but it was good to get a win and we're happy to come away with five points.