Ryan Sessegnon Quotes

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'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.

Let's just say I'm a physical guy.

I'm used to big boys. I train with big boys all the time.

I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all.

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

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

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.

My life revolves around World's Strongest Man. I want to be the World's Strongest Man.

The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.

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

I like to be strong.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I remember watching World's Strongest Man as a kid, and I was just obsessed with it. At sort of five, six years old. Just watching these huge guys lift planes, pulls trains, lift stones - I was just mesmerised by it.

I will always find something to challenge myself. I will go up to heavyweight or down to middleweight.

Lifting is what's made me stronger and made me look better. Not only does it burn fat amazingly - and I think it's really honed my body - it's also given me the strength in the ring to lift girls up. I can literally lift anything on my shoulders.

You win the physical battle first, and then you win the football. If you try to do the football first and not the physical stuff, that doesn't work.

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.

You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.

Working with one of the best strength trainers in the world, I'm getting more dangerous. I'm getting stronger and stronger.

In 1959 I had broken the bench press record by lifting 565 pounds, and I could lift 715 pounds from a squat.

I'm a big runner, and I like to lift heavy. I'm not one for those little two-pound dumbbells - my goal is to be super-muscular in my 40s.

I want to continue to expand my game a little more, build my body and work on staying strong so I can play the way I've been playing, and holding my ground the way I've been holding my ground.