Brian Roberts Quotes

I'm used to going out amongst giants and being the smallest linebacker.

I've always been one of the smallest, if not the smallest guy on the football field.

I was small but slow as a college tackle.

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

I'm tiny. I'm small.

I like how small you can be on TV.

I feel like I'm more of the underdog, which is kind of nice.

I've had it all my life - people thinking I was too small or not fast enough, not strong enough.

I was small, but I was also slow.

Like when I fought Akebono - six foot eight, 490 pounds. Before the fight, everyone's like 'Man, you're crazy. You're out of your mind. How are you going to fight a guy that big, there's no way you can take him down. You cannot punch him out. You're out of your mind.' After the fight, everybody was like 'Oh come on, he's big and fat.' Really?

After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn't great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running.

When I first started training, I guess the fact that I was undersized, it just didn't register initially. Obviously, I knew I wasn't huge and there were some bigger guys in the territories at the time, but I guess I never looked at it as a hinderance.

People are so surprised about how small I am compared to other players.

I've been under-estimated myself quite often, and in some ways I quite enjoy it.

I feel like I'm a matchup problem, but that's of course because of my height and the height difference at my position sometimes.

I've learned to compensate for my small size.

When you're not working with guys your own size and everyone is way bigger than you, guys aren't afraid to run right through you - and not even hit you in dangerous places, but just the collision alone - and sometimes it would ring your bell.

I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

Most of the time, I'm fighting guys who are 22 years old, former college wrestlers, athletes, kids who are in much better shape than me. Often people who are much bigger and wider than me. It can be dispiriting at first.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy!

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.