Grant Gustin Quotes

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I'm a dancer.

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

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.

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.

I feel like I'm a very athletic back, and I'm capable of doing more than one thing.

I'm a very coordinated individual.

It's true that I went to dance classes as a young boy, and it did improve my feet, but I don't believe that it was solely dancing that helped my footwork.

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'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

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.

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.

I'm not athletic.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.