Adebayo Akinfenwa Quotes

It's no better feeling than coming into a game being the underdog, and everybody going around telling you you can't win, and people say we going to lose by this much and that much.

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

The whole 'SmackDown' roster has a chip on its shoulder.

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

In fights when I've had the odds stacked against me, I definitely perform better because it's like a challenge to me - and I always like a challenge.

Losing! It bothers me a lot. I'm such a competitor, and I take everything personally.

I always try to find something where I feel like I'm kind of the underdog and kind of put that little chip on my shoulder.

As a playing group you don't go into the game thinking about whether you're the underdog or not.

I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.

If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."

The better the opposition put in front of you, the better your team plays.

I wouldn't even feel sorry for us if I was going against us. I know teams are licking their chops. The Bulls or Milwaukee, they're excited. Even though somebody is hurt they're still excited because they feel like we're a man down and we might not be as strong, but we're confident here. We got the players to still make something special happen. Guys just have to step up as a unit.

When I'm aggressive, all the other guys are aggressive, and somehow that's how we win games.

Ups and downs will be happening; coming to the final and losing by a point or so should not matter.

It's a special feeling when you play against your old team. I don't care how you left that team, in a good way or a bad way, you want to get the win.

On that court, ain't no such thing as friends and smiling and everything like that.

Footballers are super-intelligent and there is only one football language: to win, to win, to win.

I grew up in a rough neighborhood, so I fought a lot. Even when I was wrestling, if I lost a match, I always thought, That guy would never beat me in a fight.

It was fun winning with the Nasty Nine, but it didn't feel good going into every game with the Nasty Nine, I tell you that.

There is no such thing as friends on the field.

If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

I'm used to competition.

It's amazing, as a player and as a coach, how you always remember the tough losses better than the victories. They're just way more vivid.

Anytime you get to go up against guys that have done well in this league, who have dominated in this league, you have got to rise to the challenge.

I play basketball hard-nosed and if you're not on my team, during that 48 minutes we're enemies.