Bradley Wright-Phillips Quotes

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

I'm not the biggest guy.

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.

I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.

I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

I wasn't very athletic as a kid.

The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

I just used to bank on my athleticism.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

It is always easier to accept defeat when you were the weaker team.

Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.

The thing about kicking is, it's not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.

At the end of the day, this is football, and it's quite normal for anyone to go through difficult moments - and it's something you can learn from.

I realized at a very young age that I had a gift to do special things with the ball.

In a game I'm, like, 'Rubber Man' or something but, off the pitch, I'm the least flexible person you could imagine.

Technically I don't play sports because I have two left feet and I cannot coordinate and my motor skills are a bit 'out of whack.'

I don't think, as a player, I have a weakness on the field. I've done a great job of becoming good at everything, so I think that's what separates me.

I catch the ball. You throw the ball, I catch it. You throw it close to me, I catch it. If you make me do something crazy to catch, I still catch it.