Steven Adams Quotes

I wash it every second day, and I use Kerastase shampoo and conditioner. I just stick to that. But I also have a mustache comb, and I shampoo and condition my mustache as well.

My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn’t work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.

I stuck with a mustache because… do you know Magnum P.I.?

You don’t really get to witness what athletes go through. Like, the sacrifices and stuff like that. It’s by far the most amazing, beautiful thing.

I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I’ve got a mustache, I think it looks less creepy with long hair. Like a wild look.

Defense is gonna help me in particular and help my team, so that’s what I’ve really focused on.

I’ll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn’t half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, ‘The Monk Jumps over the Fence.’ It’s a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man – it was poetry. It had a whole story.

If I eat a food and throw it up, I’m off that food for life. It sucks. I’ve actually had some favorite foods that I no longer like because of it.

My head is weirdly shaped, so I can’t wear a headband.

New Zealand has better food – sorry, America.

You kind of did fight for food, so I filled up my plate. My dad would make us finish it, and I’d sit there crying because I’d have to finish all that food. I think that forced my stomach to stretch.

I got a lot of restaurants I like to eat at, smash out some food.

I seem to get a general reaction at just, like, ‘Oh! A mustache!’ but mostly people are fine with it. But I don’t actually do it for the ladies. It’s more a guy thing, an appreciation. All the dudes want to do it, but they don’t have the balls to do it, so they just give me the nod.

One thing that’s good is I don’t lose it if some old mate goes ‘bang!’ and hits me in the face.

Hate bread. Too many carbs.

I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That’s a lot of money, and so, man, that’s a lot of food. That’s a waste. No more. So I’m, like, letting it go so I have more food. My budget‘s good for food now.

I’d never worn a tie before. I was a bushman.