Erik Bruhn Quotes

There are no ordinary moments.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.

You gotta play every game like your last.

When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.

Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

Every moment is an experience.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

My Pa always said, 'Live fast, die laughing,' that's the way to do it.

I think every time in your life is valuable, and you need to exist in that moment. Because if you don't - you lose it.

Enjoy the day as if it were your last.

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

In life you get one take, and it's perfect.

I dance because it makes me want to explode.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

You have to have chemistry - it's acting. I need to make people believe the rumba is about two people in love, and the tango is about passion.

I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.

I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.

I live for the moment - not the future, not the past.