100 Quotes by Adebayo Akinfenwa

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.

It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can happen.

With hard work comes rewards and I want to make youngsters who could have gone left but went right find the right path.

Kids are a product of their environment.

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.

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

I was asked to go in a banana suit once or eat as many doughnuts as possible. I would not do those things. I don't eat doughnuts so why would I eat 20.

If you have a love for something, you persevere.

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.