Adebayo Akinfenwa Quotes

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

I can see the whole field. I don't know why. Most coaches can see two or three guys.

As a player, I had no idea whatsoever about getting a team ready for a game, what it entails.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

I'm a realist, I understand football and situations in the game.

I don't mind talking about the game. I don't mind talking about what we go through as players, because I want people to get a deeper look inside instead of looking at stats all the time or looking at numbers or just watching the game. I want them to get a pulse on us as players, and a lot of players might not want that, but that's what I want.

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

Alex Smith, what he’s done over the last two years for this football team, this is a mistake in not starting him. He needs to be the guy and it’s going to be tough if (Colin) Kaepernick doesn’t play well today and now you’re coming back saying, ‘Alex, we’re going to put you back in there.’

It's really hard. And it's harder today because of the salary cap. It starts in September at training camp - getting every guy on the same page, being as mentally and physically as focused as you can be. Then in April and May, you basically spend eight weeks practising, watching video and playing games. That's your life.

I thought we came out with too much respect at the beginning of the game and were on our heels instead of coming out attacking the way we did the last few games without Ricky and Kevin.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

The only difference between me and the fans is I can't eat or drink during the game and you guys can't make moves. Besides that, we are pretty much the same people.

The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.

I think a lot of people have had their eyes open, shocked that the team they thought they were on didn't exist, and that the games were not being played to win. I guess it's shocking to a lot of people.

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

If you pass the ball to Bill Cartwright, you'll never get the ball from me.

The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.

I'm a person who loves people. It's all about the vibe of the environment I'm working in.

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

If you play well on the field, everything will take care of itself.

Whether we have the best individual players doesnt matter, you have to have the best team