“It's about sticking to your strengths - I'm not trying to run away fro...” — Adebayo Akinfenwa Quote

It's about sticking to your strengths - I'm not trying to run away from nobody or do any double stopovers or anything like that, have you seen how big these legs are? Though i'm sure people would love to see it.

Everyone has got a perception of what a footballer is and, because I am a certain size, that I can only play one way - as a battering ram.

My old boss Aidy Boothroyd is a great man and I've got no malice or anything toward him.

Sometimes you're not blessed with the materialistic stuff but you're blessed with a work ethic.

Gym sessions will always consist of 40 minutes to one-hour cardio. I try to stay off the treadmill because of the pounding, so it's the rower or the cross-trainer.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

During the years I was still playing, I would go to Puerto Rico in the winter and manage. When the day came, I had the experience without having to go to the minor leagues for four or five years and then wait for an opportunity. Still, there's a double standard. Some whites, like Pete Rose, Joe Torre and Ted Williams, never had to go to the minors.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.