Big Guy Quotes

Don’t try to kid yourself that your game is about pace if it isn’t. If you’re a big guy like me you need to look at how similarly built players use that physical presence to influence a game. Accept that your build may have some limitations – but plenty of plus points too.

I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big – my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.

Be tough. As a big guy, it’s what your teammates expect from you, to be strong. Set good screens offensively and box out at the other end. It’s a simple technique. I learned it when I was little.

My choice was either Chicago or Milwaukee. Milwaukee is going with a young team and Chicago is in need of a big guy, so that’s it.

I’ll never take another picture with a mall Santa after having a cup of joe with the confirmed real big guy.

The best feeling is when you dunk on a big guy bigger than you, then you can give him that look. It shrinks him down a bit!

I am kind of a lifelong lose weight, gain weight kind of guy. I’m a big guy; I’ve always been a big guy.

I am a naturally big guy, but I cannot rush my conditioning, otherwise trying too much too quickly could result in injuries.

I wasn’t a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

I’m not a big guy that watches technique from my opponents. I try to do what I do best and hope that my stuff is better than their best stuff.

Brock Lesnar is a big challenge for me because he’s a big guy: very, very strong, very, very powerful, very, very fast. I like the challenge. Brock Lesnar, for me, would be a very good fight.

Being a big guy, I’ve got to shore up the paint a lot more. It’s my job.

Chris Gayle is an incredible player. A big guy, with phenomenal power and a very big bat. It’s quite the combo.

David Price is a big guy but he has not used his advantages, I have known him since the amateurs in the early 2000s and I would always see him in the Boxing News magazine.

I’ve done it before, and I might do it whenever we need to as a big guy… I’ll take it. A hard foul is part of the game, which is good.

I feel like I always knew fighting was what I wanted to do. But when I was 18, I got into a street fight with this football player. He was a big guy and three years older than me. I really kicked his butt, and I realized I had a talent for this and needed to pursue it.

If you’re not a first-round pick or you’re not 6-2, they always say you can’t be the best. But the only time there’s a weight class is before the draft. This is the NFL. It’s all about what you do. I can run past guys and get done what I need to. I can do everything the big guy can do.

I do believe that Brock Lesnar will be coming back. I don’t want to call it from retirement, but he is a huge draw, big guy, sells tickets. So that’s a fight I would be interested in.

Because I’m a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did ‘The Blind Side,’ where I played a father who’s a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

There’s something really powerful about comedy. When the little guy, the comedian, punches up towards the big guy, or Trump, exposing him, calling out the emperor for having no clothes, that’s really important.

My father is a big guy; he’s had a quadruple bypass surgery, and that’s scary. Those are real things that happen in families with overweight people, and I don’t want that.

Maybe I’m quicker. I can take the ball earlier than a big guy.

I think the climate of wrestling has changed. I think the big guy, The Giant, The Big John Studd’s of the world are an endangered species because the business has become smaller.

I’m a big guy, but I’m really simple with the food. I’ll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.

I want to talk about being a big guy… it’s not a fat joke. It’s a joke about living the way you live.

I like to play physical, and I’m a big guy, and I think sometimes – maybe sometimes I am pushing somebody, and I don’t realize how hard I’m pushing them. And then they do it back, and it’s kind of like, ‘Jeez!’

I’m a pretty big guy so heavyweight for me it comes very naturally.

Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he’s at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of that extra muscle because you don’t want to be thrown around like you’re nothing.

I’m a big guy; people don’t realize that.

I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours – I’m a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating.

When I was with WWE before, I was a big guy throwing people around – power moves. Then after that, when I left WWE, I was like, ‘I still enjoy professional wrestling,’ but some of the smaller guys look up at me and say, ‘I don’t wanna wrestle him. I don’t wanna get thrown around by that guy.’

I’ve always been a big guy – I was much larger and stronger than my peers when I was 13 years old.

Leo Burke was an unbelievable trainer. Him and Tom Prichard. Tom Prichard was not a big guy. And I learned a lot from him.

I can play every position in the secondary. And I can do everything – help run support, traveling, covering whoever is out there, small guy, big guy. I can play any type of coverage – blitz if I need to. There aren’t too many people who can do all of that.

I’ve always been a big guy, whether it’s been a fat kid, a fat young adult, or a fat adult. I was always sort of… I guess the term would be ‘popular.’ I never dealt with a lot of name-calling or any of the bullying you’d think a fat kid might have to deal with.

Growing up, I wasn’t a big guy; I struggled to hold on to the ball.

Based on paper, because of my size, a lot of promoters and hole-in-the-wall indies will book me against the local big guy.

Buddy Holly had something very different from the other great early rock n’ roll stars, whether it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Bo Diddley. He came across as so ordinary, as such a nerd. You know, he was a big guy, and he carried a gun. He was anything but a nerd.

I’m a big guy, but I don’t do ‘I’m so fat that… ‘ jokes.

I’m not a big guy for research. You’ve got to take a risk.

Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.

For ‘Prometheus,’ I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first ‘Alien,’ and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the ‘Space Jockey’ – the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story.

I’m not a big guy anyway. I’m only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for ‘Batman,’ 179 for ‘Warrior.’ Films make you look big.

The thing about ‘Bigfoot,’ he’s a big guy and he’s agile for a big guy, but he’s not that agile and he’s not that athletic. In fact, being a big guy is probably his greatest asset.