Adebayo Akinfenwa Quotes

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

I never cared for stuff like the All-Star Game.

Sports entertainment in general, it's a very competitive business.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.

There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

Sports is a huge entertainment now, and we need to provide that entertainment for the fans because that's what they're looking for.

Every fighter thinks about their legacy, and I'm not any different.

Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

You're really in a bubble if you're not watching the league.

Nothing comes close to the IPL, to be honest.

Whether it's NASCAR or whether it's football, or whether it's the NBA, any time something spills over to the point where somebody makes a WWE reference, I always think it's a good thing.

I am very happy to be playing for Dortmund.

I don't care that much about rankings, and that doesn't matter that much in the UFC, too.

I want to be Defensive Player of the Year.

My goal is to the best player in the NBA. That's what I'm focusing on each and every day.

I watch the Premier League, the Spanish and Dutch leagues, and a little bit of the German league.

I know it's just sport; it's just tennis.

It really doesn't matter whether you get picked first, second or in the sixth or seventh round. It's an amazing opportunity to play at this level.

At 75 percent, I personally feel I can be one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

One healthy thing I'd like for players to know, whether they're active or former, is you likely can't replicate the thrill of playing before 100,000 people and big hits and making that much money. We can get ourselves into trouble trying to.

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.

For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.