Reaction from the locker rooms at the Emirates Airline London Sevens at Twickenham.

Day two

Rudi Moors, Samoa coach - Cup winners

"I'm very proud of my guys' performance. It's our first win this year, it's been a tough year and this was a tough tournament. I told the boys we needed to improve and take something home.

"We're trying to build up strong combinations and really work on our defence. Thanks to all the people of Samoa for their support and their prayers.

Gordon Tietjens, NZ coach

"A good winning finish against a good South African team. Disappointing to lose against England but that's the way it goes. We've been battered in this tournament, got a few injuries, lost a few players but it was great to see some of those young guys step up when the level stepped up as well and even against Portugal they learnt against the types of players who play on the circuit all the time.

"We've had a particularly good year this year and to finish it of as we did, beating South Africa, was a good result. Obviously losing Victor Vito and Steven Yates was a huge loss to us and I needed to put someone out wide with that experience and Hunty [Nigel Hunt] can do that. He's quick enough, he's a game breaker and he deserved that try right at the end."

Tom Biggs, England - Five tries in the tournament

"It's my first tournament and luckily I've been used as an impact sub, which suited me really well coming on for Uche [Oduoza], who's played wing for most of the time. While we're both quick, we're very different players. I can't compete with his strength but I've really enjoyed the tournament, the crowd has been fantastic and something I've never experienced before.

"We haven't beaten New Zealand for a long time so that's one great achievement that we can take away from this tournament. We've got a few new players coming for Murrayfield next weekend and I'm sure they'll relish that having seen some of us win our first caps here."

London Sevens Audio-Video: Watch the tries, hear the reaction!

Simon Amor, England women's coach - winners over NZ Maori

"It's always great to be involved in such a great sporting occasion and it's been fantastic to be given the opportunity to coach such a talented bunch of young ladies. It was a great game, very pleased to come out on top of a very strong New Zealand Maori team.

"We've still got a long way to go. We made a lot of errors but the competitive spirit and the mental toughness is growing with us as a group and that's fundamental to our chances of winning the World Cup in 2009."

Beth Coalter, IRB Sevens Manager

"What was really interesting here was the scepticism that everybody had about the women's game and I think everybody was really surprised by the standard of play that the girls gave. They're taking it seriously, England have got [former England men's captain] Simon Amor coaching them, New Zealand have lots of Sevens experience and I think lots of people are starting to sit up take notice of the women's game.

"There's already a lot more awareness about the Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2009. I've been out to Dubai, had a look at the drawing in the sand and it's amazing to think that in a few months time there's going to be a world class stadium out there. Sun, sea, sand and exciting rugby - what more can you ask for?"

Day one

Diogo Mateus, Portugal captain

On beating Australia and Canada to reach the Cup quarter-finals: "We came here with no expectations, we just wanted to start with a good game and start evolving from that because we have the World Cup qualifying coming up and we want to get there as best as we can. We brought a very young team, already full of experience but still young, and we just played for the fun, for the team.

London Sevens Audio-Video: Watch the tries, hear the reaction!

"We made a few very good tries and at the end we won the game. I think it was the first time we beat Australia, so you can imagine what we feel at the end winning against one of the big teams, but as you saw in the second game we didn't do so well, but this is Sevens, sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. We are just here to do our best and we hope to get as far as we can."

Ben Ryan, England coach

"The simple things they [South Africa] did better than we did. They took their chances and were fairly clinical. We are disappointed that we lost to them, but like I told the lads you win the tournaments on the Sundays not the Saturdays. We have got a good side here and we are really looking forward to playing New Zealand in the quarter-finals.

"They are a quality side and Titch [coach Gordon Tietjens] has got them playing a great brand of rugby, but it doesn't really matter who we play, we have shown this year we can play supposedly smaller nations in the quarter-finals and have lost. New Zealand are a good focus for us in the quarter-final, it then gives us perhaps a slightly easier route to the final after that.

"We are not being overly arrogant or anything, we are just looking forward to playing them because we feel we have got a side, irrespective of who we play in the quarter-finals, that are good enough to win this. We have had a reality check [against South Africa], but sometimes retrospectively you can look back and a defeat sometimes does you the power of good."

Gordon Tietjens, New Zealand coach

"We had a shocking day today, our first two games were quite abysmal and setting the standards we like to set it was pretty disappointing, but it was great to finish with certainly a lot better performance, defensively we played really well. I suppose the performance tonight we will hopefully take into tomorrow, but the first two games were obviously disappointing.

"We started slowly against Argentina and you can never afford to do that, we got punished for a little bit of indiscipline, found ourselves with six men, but only good teams can come back like that to win it at the death.

"We've taken a few knocks mind you, we have got a few injuries and we are trying probably to handle those situations. Ed Cocker has blown a hamstring and is out of the tournament, Solomon King is another one, Zar Lawrence is another one, so it's up to the bench guys really to put their hand up, that is what it is all about."

Paul Treu, South Africa coach

"I was happy with the first game against France, but I think the second game after we made a few substitutions we lost our momentum a bit towards the end of the game against Spain. What an awesome performance by the guys in the last game against England, it is not every day you are going to play England at Twickenham and to beat them as well. Just for the way the guys performed and the way they have committed to their responsibilities, it was really a good team effort.

"We have set certain goals for ourselves and one of them is we want to win at least two of the tournaments this season. We have won in Adelaide, we are on track now maybe to go all the way in this one as well, but we also know every game from now on is going to be a final so we are just going to take it one game at a time.

"Argentina tomorrow morning is not going to be easy, but it will be awesome if we can go to another final. Argentina are very unpredictable ... it is a game we will have to be focused for the full 14 minutes. We are going to be ready for them and I think we will have to be at our best if we want to beat them."

Stephen Gemmell, Scotland coach

"Kenya was always going to be a key game. You look at the Pool and without being negative you'd probably say if we play well we'll beat Russia, Samoa if they play how they can then they will potentially beat us and Kenya has always been close. We have played them a number of times over the last two years since I've been involved and we've never beaten them.

"We knew it was a game in which if we could keep structure and we could prevent them from getting into their running, it was built on defence that first game, being able to keep ball and hit shoulders and have people running off. We knew if could get into the tournament with a win it would give us some momentum and we did that.

"I have said all season that we have got a squad good enough to do that [reach a first Cup semi-final] and we have been very close on a couple of occasions. There is no reason why not, we have to believe, we have to turn up and give it our best shot and if we do that then we'll go to Murrayfield on a high."