Alex Brooker

I'm a chav.

— Alex Brooker

I do like a physical challenge.

— Alex Brooker

I don't fancy drowning.

— Alex Brooker

My karaoke song is 'Regulate' by Warren G.

— Alex Brooker

Being able to joke about my disability also gives me some control over it.

— Alex Brooker

When I was a teenager, nobody would have dreamed of having moisturiser.

— Alex Brooker

Volunteers at grassroots football helped me a lot when I was younger.

— Alex Brooker

I want to try wheelchair rugby, I could be quite good at that.

— Alex Brooker

I want to continue doing stuff where I can be myself.

— Alex Brooker

I look back on my childhood and my disability and think that I was very fortunate.

— Alex Brooker

I love being a dad and it's amazing. It's brilliant.

— Alex Brooker

Obviously I clearly don't shy away from my identity as a disabled person.

— Alex Brooker

I've overcome a lot of issues over the years and as I come into later life, I've got new ones to come…

— Alex Brooker

When I was born, my right foot was twisted, and so it was amputated. I was also born with hand deformities.

— Alex Brooker

When I was a kid there weren't a lot of disabled people on television, so I grew up thinking there was no…

— Alex Brooker

Whether you have disabilities or not, football fans are football fans and we should all have the same opportunities to watch our…

— Alex Brooker

As I was growing up and I was growing, obviously I'd outgrow a prosthetic leg, and you're seeing the prosthetist several times…

— Alex Brooker

I think people forget that when they see you on television, it's not like the camera's gone on and I'm doing what…

— Alex Brooker

A lot of these fad diets promise a lot in a short space of time, and they can't possibly deliver as a…

— Alex Brooker

There weren't any other disabled people at my secondary school, so it was quite weird to find myself pigeonholing myself as disabled...…

— Alex Brooker

When you're disabled, the bar is set so low for you. Even if people don't say it, you can tell by the…

— Alex Brooker

When we talk about diversity, sometimes I see things on Twitter about a panel on diversity or a think tank that's been…

— Alex Brooker

The great thing about football is it's so accessible. It's available for any gender, any disability. There's walking football for pensioners, power-chair…

— Alex Brooker

It's one of the big things I struggled to deal with since I've been on television, people who give you crap on…

— Alex Brooker

It's hard to say you're a comedian because that is almost an admittance that you're funny, and if you say that, you…

— Alex Brooker

The Paralympics will grip audiences and the public will get used to seeing disabled people. They will see that they are just…

— Alex Brooker

To think that in 2012, I had a nine or ten-day contract for Channel 4 to be a reporter and I remember…

— Alex Brooker

I think that there's more of a push for disabled people to be on telly than ever before. It's definitely the best…

— Alex Brooker

People should not walk on eggshells around the disabled.

— Alex Brooker

I cannot speak for every disabled person and not every disabled person speaks for me.

— Alex Brooker

To see more disabled people in films would be incredible.

— Alex Brooker

I'm not using Comic Relief to launch my own singing career.

— Alex Brooker

I want to do more than what people think I can do.

— Alex Brooker

My relationship with my disability hasn't always been positive.

— Alex Brooker

I'm right footed, but I don't have a right foot.

— Alex Brooker

I'm not particularly athletic and I'm not someone who will ever eat very well.

— Alex Brooker

I can't say strongly enough how much I enjoy winding my mum up.

— Alex Brooker

Everyone wants six-packs and skinny jeans. I'm not into skinny jeams though.

— Alex Brooker

I'm always laughing on 'The Last Leg' - it's a lot of fun.

— Alex Brooker

I was a football journalist for six years before going to Channel 4.

— Alex Brooker