Georginio Wijnaldum Quotes

We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.

That's something I do, like, all the time. I just do backflips off things.

My mom didn't let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn't want me to get hurt.

I used to try and do backflips a lot, but I used to bang my head more often than not, so I gave it up.

My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but my mom said 'No, it's too dangerous to go abroad by yourself.' So I gave up.

Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn't even on.

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

My goal is to do cartwheels for the rest of my life.

I am partial to a cartwheel or two. It's the way to go; I'll be doing them in my 50s, hopefully.

I've always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.

I've never broken a bone in my body, even though I've done some extreme things.

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.

Tumbling has always been my favorite.

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.

Like many people of my generation, I feel like I survived my adolescent mischief only by a miracle, and it seems too much to hope for that the same miracle would befall my children - therefore, I want to make sure they take fewer chances than I did.

We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.

Me and my mates go free running all the time. It's not my mum's favourite sport. I've probably jumped four metres on to grass and two metres between buildings. It's nothing like you see on the Internet, with guys jumping off skyscrapers, but it's fun.

Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.

As a kid, I loved contact sports, especially American football and boxing.

Ever since I was a little girl, I was always flipping all over my house.

I do not have a son; if I had a son, I wouldn't necessarily discourage him from playing football, but I don't know that I would encourage him to play, either.