Amy Purdy Quotes

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

Being able to use both feet was something that came quite naturally to me ever since I started playing. However, it's something I work on all the time to make sure that level never gets any lower.

I feel comfortable in the air, me as a person. I feel very in control of my body. You can toss me from the weirdest angle. I just know where I'm at. I don't even know how to explain it.

Snowboarding requires lower-body strength.

If you can roll at every angle, it becomes second nature to protect yourself when you fall.

My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.

You have to remember everything you've created. But then comes a moment when it's all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don't have to think about it any more.

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.

I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.

I dazzle you with that footwork.

Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.

I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

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

I need poise. I'm just so clumsy that it would kind of save me a lot.

Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's a whole different ballgame that you're constantly working on - bent legs, loose ankles - which you cannot afford to do when you're doing jumps or anything else.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly the way you want it to, fluid and confident.

I can cartwheel!

Once you learn how to roller skate for 'Starlight Express,' it's a lifelong skill you have acquired.

I'm a hell of a bloody good dancer.

I've been playing basketball my entire life, so I feel comfortable doing what is asked of me.