Teri Garr Quotes

I have to relearn how to walk again. It's not that you have to reteach yourself. But your mind and your foot have to get back on the same page, and remind yourself that it's OK to do this. You've done this before. It's reminding it what it's supposed to do again.

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.

My daughter couldn't wake me up, so they called 911. They rushed me to the hospital. They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain. I was unconscious for a week, and I was in rehab for two months - couldn't walk, couldn't talk. Now I've relearned everything. I'm so happy.

I was determined to get back to my life. I had to relearn how to do everything. I had to learn how to talk, eat, move my arms.

All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.

With all this rehab, for me just to walk was a huge effort. I had to re-learn how to walk again after the stroke. And all the rehab and all the effort shows the mental determination times 10 to keep serving.

It's very good for one's brain and muscular system to work in harmony. If you keep up your playing it just keeps things ticking over.

I've been through so much. I mean, after an ACL, you have to learn how to walk again, how to run again, you have to get your head strong again.

First time you step on these new legs, it's bloody hard. It's painful on your pelvic bones. But every day I get more of a feel for where my feet are.

I think flexibility in general is something that needs to be reinforced, and not only baseball players but all sports.

From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.

To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

With 'Little Accidents', I spent probably three months working with a physical therapist, just understanding, starting from square one, about the neurological makeup of what happens when you have a stroke or what carbon monoxide poisoning does to your body.

I have been a professional dancer and athlete my entire life.

Being explosive, quick, elusive and fast helps my game, so I do tons of lunges, leg press and different explosion type of runs.

I got over the transverse myelitis stuff; I'm walking great, and I'm playing faster; I mean, I'm just playing all the time. I have to, just as exercise.

'Man in the Air' was an experience in exercise.

Dancing improved my fitness level and endurance.

As I grew up, I started practising gymnastics. I love dancing as well. So that keeps me fit.

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.

I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I'm also good at fencing.