Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Adebayo Akinfenwa

Playing on Sky Sports doesn't really make a difference to me.

I've had three or four Scottish Premier League clubs contact me about going there and doing something. A couple of those clubs couldn't be further away from London so I'd have to seriously think about it, but it's nice to be sought after and nice to be wanted.

People only see what they want to see and sometimes you can't do anything about that, so you just pick up the baton and you just run with it.

I was always a big guy. You see my family - my brothers are the same size.

There ain't nobody going to run me out of nowhere.

Defy the limitations people put on you.

In my younger days, sometimes family and personal life came second to my ambition.

I'm not one of those players who always gets to games or watches every game on TV. If a game is on and I'm free, I'll watch it but I won't make my schedule around a football match.

I went to bikram yoga once, it was fun, but boy was it tough.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

As I've said before, I'm a big fan of social media because it allows players and fans to interactive but it can have its pitfalls.

I know that I don't look like a footballer but I've always enjoyed working out and I've always been bigger than most people out there. I come from big stock. If you see my brothers and me together, we look like a wrestling tag team trio.

When I look back at my career it is nice to know that I've been appreciated on and off the pitch because not everyone is.

The time you are happy to sit on the bench, is the time you should retire in my opinion.

Football players value job security and stability as much anybody else.

Of course I know I am not the average footballer. But I'd be lying if I said I set out to be different, I didn't set out to go against the grain.

Obviously you know match-fixing is out there but you don't really associate it with the English game.

People think that football is all glamour and money but trust me all footballers go through the same boring and annoying things as everybody else.

I'm not a gambler and I never have been.

I'm a massive fan of Didier Drogba, I love the way he plays. He's not as stacked as me but he's strong and he's still scoring goals. I'm a fan of Diego Costa as well. I think he crosses the line at times but I like the fact he doesn't allow himself to be bullied.

Everyone likes to be praised for their work and footballers are no different but the key thing is staying level-headed.

I enjoy watching England but I won't rearrange my schedule just to make sure I'm in to see the game.

When you hear Beast Mode, you automatically go to my size, but I always say the strongest thing I own is not my chest, my legs, not my arms. It's my mind. It's that mindset that says: Look, you're not always going to succeed but don't take it as a loss, take it as a lesson. That's the mindset of Beast Mode.

Sometimes it's nice to be a bit different.

There was a long period when I was younger where people always talked about my size and I was going 'but look, I can play, though, I can play' but you look at it, to have a career, 12-13 years, you've got to be more than just a brute.

My career and my stats, they all speak for itself so to say that I've got anything to prove to people, to say 'well, look, I can play, I'm not just a big guy,' that really is not my driving force in life.

I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

It used to get my back up because people would only say 'he does well for his size' and it's like, forget the size, I do well because I do well.

Kids are a product of their environment.

Boredom does get you into trouble and we footballers have a lot of time on our hands, and sometimes we fill up that time with stuff that isn't always positive.

People said I'm too big to play football.

Liverpool are not used to playing a 16-and-a-half stone striker.

You play football to go out there and win - that's the bottom line.

That's one reason fans take to me. They like the battle side of it. They look at me and think this guy shouldn't be on the pitch, he's just bulldozing his way through.

As a footballer I know what I'm good at and I've now embraced it.

People may laugh or whatever, but my strength is something that I have to work on. It's not something that just happens overnight, it takes dedication and hard work and it has a purpose as it helps me every week on the pitch.

You see it all the time, in all divisions, that teams raise themselves and apply themselves that little bit more when they play a 'bigger team.'

As players we have to be careful what we put out there and make sure everything we do is appropriate. And it is not always easy.

For me posting videos on YouTube and interacting with people on Twitter is a great release from the stresses of football.

To have the support of your team-mates is massive.

I've been in football a long time now and I've seen plenty of managers and players come and go. It is part and parcel of the game.

I've always liked to keep myself busy so I don't get sucked in by temptations and that was part of the reason why I set up my BMO brand - to keep me occupied during my career, but also for when I finish football.

To be recognised as the best in the whole world at something is an achievement.

When you've only got two days between games the recovery process is key.

If you want to gamble, so be it, but when it gets to the stage where gambling is the only thing you are thinking of and it is affecting your life, that's when you need to put a hold on it.

As a player on the bench, you become like a fan really. You're sitting there shouting 'why did he do that?' or 'no don't pass it there' and I can see why fans get so frustrated. But then I remember what it is like being out there on the pitch and how players can't see everything that fans can see.

My arms are probably the same size as John Terry's legs.

I'm human just like everyone.

I'm a footballer first and foremost and I want to be remembered for what I do on the pitch.

My favourite chant is 'you're just a fat Eddie Murphy.' When I heard that I could not stop laughing. I would prefer a 'muscular Eddie Murphy.'

Let me clear something up: I don't like KFC. Or McDonald's.

I think if you score lots of goals but nobody likes you as a person then it stands for nothing.

Like individuals in all walks of life, footballers want stability and we have families to look after.

John Barnes was my idol growing up and he's the reason I've supported Liverpool. I play nothing like him, though!

I would never lie about another professional.

Beast Mode On is a state of mind. Beast Mode is about applying yourself and defying the limitations people put on you.

If you have a love for something, you persevere.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to be in a warm office every day. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining because I know how lucky I am to be playing football for a living. The positives by far outweigh the negatives.

I'm going to say it out loud: I'm available for England selection if they serve chicken for pre-match.

I want to be playing competitive first-team football every week and not reserve team football.