Adebayo Akinfenwa Quotes

When you are stronger, it helps. But ever since I have played football, I have been one of the smallest ones, and you have to try to compensate with other things because if you are faster or stronger, it helps you.

When you're 250 pounds, you can push more people around, but you can't move as fast or jump as high.

At first sight, Pogba was notable for his size and physicality, and when you got to know him, there was also a confidence about him.

I guess what I've been told makes me dangerous is my height and length, so I just use that.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

I don't have a sprinter's body.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters.

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

All comedians have to use their physicality, so I use my size.

We’ve got more capacity than anybody both offensively and defensively.

I focus on what I can do in this game. I don't have speed. I'm not a guy who can have a stolen base. I wish I could, but I can't.

My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I'm a visceral guy.

A big upper body is not a great thing for tennis, and for me, flexibility is important.

Demarcus Cousins, he can move. With his size, he can really use his size on the perimeter against anybody. That's what I want to do when I get to the league.

I've played lacrosse players, football players, basketball players. I think that's just because of how I'm built. I look young, and I'm also a big person.

Dybala's game is easier on the eye, but Pogba is extraordinary because he has physicality and technique.

With my size and length I can affect the game in a lot of ways.

My whole career, when I was in Croatia, people questioned me, saying I wouldn't make it, that I wasn't good enough because I wasn't big and strong.

People are so surprised about how small I am compared to other players.

I'm not the biggest dude, and I'm not the fastest dude.

For me, from day one, I don't think I realized that I was considered undersized, but I knew I was good. I had certain tools in my toolbox that other guys didn't have, like agility, quickness and explosiveness.

There have been other players of a similar build and stature to myself - slim, if you like - who have come here and shown a physical resilience in the way that I hope to as well.

Brock Lesnar is a big challenge for me because he's a big guy: very, very strong, very, very powerful, very, very fast. I like the challenge. Brock Lesnar, for me, would be a very good fight.