The All Blacks knocked out the world number one Irish after a world-class match in Saint-Denis.
These are the key quotes after New Zealand beat Ireland 28-24 in the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup at the Stade de France on Saturday.
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"A lot of credit has to go to Ireland. They set the standard in world rugby for the last couple of years so we knew the challenge that we had here tonight.
"I'm just super proud of the effort that went into the week's preparation and then our ability to defend our line for 30+ phases at the end. That was huge."
"It was one of those Test matches, it was a battle, I'm really proud of my boys. Ireland have set the standard and I want to send love to them."
“Sometimes the sweetest victories are when your opposition plays very well and tests you to the limit. At the end of the day, we played a lot of that game with 14 players. And we looked in control of it and it felt good. We knew where we had to dig into ourselves to get the result. I couldn't be more proud."
"We'll breathe and focus because we have memories of 2019 of slipping up in a semi so we have to make sure we're in the house to go for another big one.
"We know Argentina well. It'll be a good Southern Hemisphere game."
"What an unbelievable game of rugby union. I am lost for words. I knew the All Blacks had a game in them, but it was the way they delivered and put pressure on Ireland."
"Sport can be cruel sometimes. I guess that's why we love it. The way we kept battling shows the character of this side."
"We couldn't have done any more. It's just fine margins. We feel they sucker-punched us on tries, we had to work hard on our tries. That's what champions do. We fell just short."
"You have to work hard for fairy-tale endings but we didn't get it, that's just life. We didn't leave a stone unturned, we ticked every box. We trained the house down."
"He's probably the best ever player to play for Ireland and when you're 38 and playing your best rugby, it says a lot about the man."
"Johnny Sexton is going to live it all over for a long while, he will play it over and think what he could have done. Ireland gave everything they had, they were just repelled. There is nothing between the sides."
"I am heartbroken. Ireland's eighth quarter-final and they didn't play to the level that they would have wanted. Johnny Sexton... is a broken man. There is a broken country here, so many Ireland fans and unfortunately it is not to be."
