I remember coming back from training one day and Simon Poidevin was talking to a priest. I thought...this was going to be some rough encounter becaus…

- Phil Kearns

Referees are only human, I think.

- Phil Kearns

You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

- Phil Kearns