Adebayo Akinfenwa - People concentrate on 'oh you can't do that,' o

People concentrate on 'oh you can't do that,' or 'you're a bit too big for that' or whatever, rather than just concentrating on what you're good at. It's about being comfortable with the skin you're in, being comfortable within your own mind.

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Hytner, David. "Adebayo Akinfenwa: ‘I am a big guy but there is a delicacy to this giant’." The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 3 Jan. 2015.

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