Here is a collection of our favorite Snorisms
"If I am the weakest link then we are bloody strong. I am a God-given talent. I am the best I can ever be. I know what I am and I don't give a damn.''
"I am going to pull a rat out of the hat.''
"Why don't we go to the nearest ballet shop, get some tutus and get a dancing shop going? There will be no eye gouging, no tackling, no nothing, and we will enjoy it.''
"There is little difference between winning and losing except you feel better after winning.''
"Graham Henry is a good coach, but he is like me, he has a big mouth.''
"No one is born a rugby player. You are born a person who becomes a rugby player and I can enhance this with warmth and reach your soul and make you realise there is life after rugby.'
"I always knew I was destined for something big - but I did not realise it would be this big (Springbok coach). Whatever job I did I always excelled at it, and quickly. Time is not a concern to me and I will work 24 hours to get a job done, knowing hard work is always rewarded.''
"I will not change my style. If I change my style I will change Peter de Villiers and then I would have to tell God that he made a mistake when he made me.''
"We are very organised at the moment (after winning 2009 Tri-Nations). We do not want to become a fruit salad.''
"I have got a job to do. I think I am a strong individual, a strong character. I do not care what people think about me. I do not care what people say about me. It is what I think about me and myself - and I love myself a lot.''
"If we want to eye-gouge any Lions we will go down to the bushveld like we do and eye-gouge them there."
"What we try to tell them is when you point your finger into the sky, don't concentrate on the finger because you'll miss all the heavenly glory out there. Concentrate on the heavenly glory you can bring and make yourselves so fulfilled."
"The same people who threw their robes on the ground when Jesus rode on a donkey were the same people who crowned him and hit him with sticks, and were the same people who said afterwards how we shouldn't have done that, he's the son of God. So that's exactly what we do. You have to look at history as repeating itself. And I'm not saying that I'm God."
"The small things like judicial hearing will not take away the fact that we won. Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize. No matter what they did wrong in their lives, no one can take away the fact that they won it."
"I'm a God-given talent, I'm the best I can ever be. So what you think doesn't bother me. I know what I am and I don't give a damn."
"What I learned in South Africa is, if you take your car to a garage and the owner is black or a black man, and they mess it up, you never go back to that garage. If the owner is white, you say ag, sorry, they made a mistake and you go back again. This is how some people live their lives in this country."
"I won't change my style, if I change my style I will change Peter de Villiers, and then I would have to tell God that he made a mistake when he made me."
"We will give them a psychological advantage and we cannot allow that. We've read in the papers here that they believe South Africa are ripe for the picking. They're comparing us with some fruit from a Welsh fruit farm but they need to know that when you pick fruit, it isn't just apples and pears; there are prickly pears as well. We want to be a prickly pear for them this Saturday."
“I don’t care if people don’t understand me. It’s not my duty to say directly to your face that you’re ugly, I say you aren’t pretty and if you can’t read between the lines then it’s not my problem. There’s no pill for stupid”
“I think I should walk away from this job and give it back to the whites.”
“In our group we are expecting tough games from Tonga and Fiji.” – Tonga are not in the Boks’ group.
Reporter: “So Peter de Villiers did you find anything to do in Hamilton?”
PDV: “Ja you know, we did find something to do. We won the Trinations in Hamilton.”
” I am a ‘small-brain’ person. A small-brain person doesn’t need to go sit down and study over what he’s going to say to people; it comes naturally. People who study and get A’s and B’s are clever people. But people who don’t go and study and have all that wisdom are wise.”
“If you look at those people who say all those things about me you will ask: How did God manage to create those people?”
“If Robbie Deans says it, then it’s different. I mean, Robbie Deans is a good coach and I am not.”
“I have such a wonderful bunch of guys to choose from and there is pressure on all of them to perform. But even if you’re playing a game on the moon, if you have the skills and you play well, you will win.”
And my favourite one of all:
“If you look at the Bible and see how Joseph got out of the pit and ended up in the palace, but between the pit and the palace there was a moerse lot of kak.”
"I am going to pull a rat out of the hat.''
"Why don't we go to the nearest ballet shop, get some tutus and get a dancing shop going? There will be no eye gouging, no tackling, no nothing, and we will enjoy it.''
"There is little difference between winning and losing except you feel better after winning.''
"Graham Henry is a good coach, but he is like me, he has a big mouth.''
"No one is born a rugby player. You are born a person who becomes a rugby player and I can enhance this with warmth and reach your soul and make you realise there is life after rugby.'
"I always knew I was destined for something big - but I did not realise it would be this big (Springbok coach). Whatever job I did I always excelled at it, and quickly. Time is not a concern to me and I will work 24 hours to get a job done, knowing hard work is always rewarded.''
"I will not change my style. If I change my style I will change Peter de Villiers and then I would have to tell God that he made a mistake when he made me.''
"We are very organised at the moment (after winning 2009 Tri-Nations). We do not want to become a fruit salad.''
"I have got a job to do. I think I am a strong individual, a strong character. I do not care what people think about me. I do not care what people say about me. It is what I think about me and myself - and I love myself a lot.''
"If we want to eye-gouge any Lions we will go down to the bushveld like we do and eye-gouge them there."
"What we try to tell them is when you point your finger into the sky, don't concentrate on the finger because you'll miss all the heavenly glory out there. Concentrate on the heavenly glory you can bring and make yourselves so fulfilled."
"The same people who threw their robes on the ground when Jesus rode on a donkey were the same people who crowned him and hit him with sticks, and were the same people who said afterwards how we shouldn't have done that, he's the son of God. So that's exactly what we do. You have to look at history as repeating itself. And I'm not saying that I'm God."
"The small things like judicial hearing will not take away the fact that we won. Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize. No matter what they did wrong in their lives, no one can take away the fact that they won it."
"I'm a God-given talent, I'm the best I can ever be. So what you think doesn't bother me. I know what I am and I don't give a damn."
"What I learned in South Africa is, if you take your car to a garage and the owner is black or a black man, and they mess it up, you never go back to that garage. If the owner is white, you say ag, sorry, they made a mistake and you go back again. This is how some people live their lives in this country."
"I won't change my style, if I change my style I will change Peter de Villiers, and then I would have to tell God that he made a mistake when he made me."
"We will give them a psychological advantage and we cannot allow that. We've read in the papers here that they believe South Africa are ripe for the picking. They're comparing us with some fruit from a Welsh fruit farm but they need to know that when you pick fruit, it isn't just apples and pears; there are prickly pears as well. We want to be a prickly pear for them this Saturday."
“I don’t care if people don’t understand me. It’s not my duty to say directly to your face that you’re ugly, I say you aren’t pretty and if you can’t read between the lines then it’s not my problem. There’s no pill for stupid”
“I think I should walk away from this job and give it back to the whites.”
“In our group we are expecting tough games from Tonga and Fiji.” – Tonga are not in the Boks’ group.
Reporter: “So Peter de Villiers did you find anything to do in Hamilton?”
PDV: “Ja you know, we did find something to do. We won the Trinations in Hamilton.”
” I am a ‘small-brain’ person. A small-brain person doesn’t need to go sit down and study over what he’s going to say to people; it comes naturally. People who study and get A’s and B’s are clever people. But people who don’t go and study and have all that wisdom are wise.”
“If you look at those people who say all those things about me you will ask: How did God manage to create those people?”
“If Robbie Deans says it, then it’s different. I mean, Robbie Deans is a good coach and I am not.”
“I have such a wonderful bunch of guys to choose from and there is pressure on all of them to perform. But even if you’re playing a game on the moon, if you have the skills and you play well, you will win.”
And my favourite one of all:
“If you look at the Bible and see how Joseph got out of the pit and ended up in the palace, but between the pit and the palace there was a moerse lot of kak.”
