DeAndre Hopkins Quotes

People have this misconception that people with six-pack abs can deliver hits, but that's not the case. Had I built six-pack abs for 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns,' I wouldn't have been able to justify myself.

I'm strong, but my arms are skinny; they're never going to get big and bulky like a football player.

I've always been round, strong, and muscular.

I heard the other day that I'm the skinniest power forward in the league. I might be the skinniest, but I'm damn sure not the weakest.

I remember when I was young, before we started lifting and working out, I looked like I was bench-pressing other humans. I looked different than other girls. I had to be OK with the fact that I had a strong physique, no matter if people looked at me in an accepting way or not.

I don't have big muscles.

You should never be afraid of looking athletic or building too much muscle.

I am not the fittest guy, I don't have biceps and six-pack abs.

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

For Punjabis like me, we have to work a little harder on our body.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

I want to get more muscly.

My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to it.

I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

It's not really in my genes to be walking around looking like a body builder.

I've picked up a lot of muscle weight. I have to be a physically strong guy.

I never started bodybuilding because I thought I'm not big enough, I'm not strong enough.

I knew I wasn't soft. I knew I could play on this level and I knew that being in the paint was just a physical position that I wasn't strong enough for. I wanted to get myself strong enough where I could be dominant down there.

I need to improve my physical play and get as big and strong as I can.

I do a lot of things because if you do just one thing... like, if you run too much, everything just gets loose. You lose weight, but you get loose, and you want to be strong, have muscles.

You don't have to be built like Karl Malone to be strong. There are thinner guys who are really strong. Kevin Durant, who I used to work with, has real strength to his body.

I'm a pretty big guy so heavyweight for me it comes very naturally.

Compared to some other guys at 205, of course, I'll be a little small. But I've never tried to just physically go for it, bulk up, lift weights.

I don't have a muscle body. I don't have a chiseled frame.