Adebayo Akinfenwa

“It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can happen.”

“Even though I am getting my coaching badges, I am more into mentoring.”

“People said: 'You're too big to play football,' but I kept playing and it just happened that people have caught on to me and taken to me. The nicest thing I get from it is that I can be myself and people seem to like it.”

“As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.”

“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.”

“I'd always been one of the strongest players in the game, but officially in 'Fifa 14' I was the strongest in the world. If they say so, I must be. I like that.”

“I'm not one of those players who always gets to games or watches every game on TV. If a game is on and I'm free, I'll watch it but I won't make my schedule around a football match.”

“I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.”

“My arms are probably the same size as John Terry's legs.”

“Defy the limitations people put on you.”

“I've always been big, my brothers are my size, we come from good stock.”

“Boredom does get you into trouble and we footballers have a lot of time on our hands, and sometimes we fill up that time with stuff that isn't always positive.”

“I've had three or four Scottish Premier League clubs contact me about going there and doing something. A couple of those clubs couldn't be further away from London so I'd have to seriously think about it, but it's nice to be sought after and nice to be wanted.”

“I'm aware that there are a lot of guys playing at amateur level with a build like mine and I say stick at it, use what you've got to make an impact on the game.”

“Beast Mode On is a state of mind. Beast Mode is about applying yourself and defying the limitations people put on you.”

“I've been in football a long time now and I've seen plenty of managers and players come and go. It is part and parcel of the game.”

“In my younger days, sometimes family and personal life came second to my ambition.”

“My career and my stats, they all speak for itself so to say that I've got anything to prove to people, to say 'well, look, I can play, I'm not just a big guy,' that really is not my driving force in life.”

“Football players value job security and stability as much anybody else.”

“My old boss Aidy Boothroyd is a great man and I've got no malice or anything toward him.”