Adebayo Akinfenwa Quotes

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete.

My whole life, every time I've been down, I've found a way to turn it around.

Success and failure is temporary. So don't let them get to you.

At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if your mental state isn't good enough, you can't bring yourself to bigger and better things.

Failure never goes to my heart, and success never goes to my head.

You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you've got to be different and even more better.

Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

Instead of letting things break you, look at failures as opportunities to get better. Become unbreakable.

When you get kicked, you must know that the response is to play better. That is the way I have always thought. That is an extra motivation for me to play better.

The most important thing any broken individual can do is keep their chin up and keep moving forward.

I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

My strength was probably more the mental side of the game rather than the skill side. I always had that self-belief that I was good enough. You have got to believe you are good enough, otherwise there is no point to it.

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

It's about staying ahead of what happened yesterday. When you just in your mind think...nothing's going to stop me. I don't care how I felt yesterday. I'm gonna go out today and do what I know I can do. If you can just tell yourself...no I'm stronger than this, no I'm better than this, no I'm faster than this, no I'm tougher than this. I think you can make it through situations that your never thought possible.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory