Eric Heiden Quotes

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

Everyone needs to move - if you're a pro athlete, a contortionist, a computer programmer, or just somebody who wants to play with their kids.

It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

I'm moving around; doing stuff. I can walk. I can even run.

You have to train hard and be strong while staying flexible and limber, so I'm trying to find that balance.

Me being in shape allows me to be more mobile and do better things, make bigger plays.

If I can walk, I can play.

In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.

It feels good to be strong.

Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.

All physical activity begins with the body's core. I maintain the strength in my core so that I can jump, run, start, stop, and accelerate at the highest levels.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it.

I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then wouldn't have to age at the same rate that they would if they were not more active. In other words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important.

Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.

If you can jump, you can jump.

Cross fit, callisthenics, and weight training are a regular part of my workout regime. It's helped me a lot with my stamina, agility, and movement.

With dancing, it just brings out more flexibility, more core strength, and you definitely get a great workout.

For me, fitness is a part of my everyday life. But fitness does not mean having big muscles; it means being active, quick, and flexible. It can be defined in many terms.

I see myself as a pretty mobile big man.