Luke Treadaway Quotes

I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.

The hardest for me is rings because it is a lot more strength-oriented, while all the other events are about fluidity and flexibility. It's the one event that doesn't coincide with the fluidity, which is my strength.

I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

I can cartwheel!

I could do a standing back flip at 13.

A lot of people know me for my speed and my flexibility. I like to jump, but I'm not really the best jumper. I'm more of a spinner.

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

I'm very acrobatic. I can do backflips and all that crazy stuff.

Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

You need to have explosive power. So you need to have good agility to move your feet quick and be in the right place at the right time. So you have to be an overall athlete: you need to be in shape to be able to throw.

For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.

Running with your hands behind your back is so hard.

I have been blessed with strong leg muscles, and dancing really exercises one's legs.

If I didn't have quads and hamstrings, soccer would be a lot different for me than it is now. I would be pushed all over the field. My lower body is something that has made me the player I am today, and it makes me feel strong.

I can put both legs over my head.

Gymnastics gives you the abs. It's not like I sit there doing like a thousand crunches before every practice or something like that.

It may look weird to an outsider to watch me jump out of the car basically walking on my arms. Of course, it's very easy for me.