Alexander Dale Oen Quotes

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

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

When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

I've always had a knack for hitting the mark perfectly. Even when I'm walking or running, I'm very good at not having to look down.

Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.

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

I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the biggest obstacle is just bringing it all together.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

I spent the whole first year of my career just on my legs. If you have good legs under you, then you can punch. Anybody can stand and throw their hands and look like an idiot. If you actually want to learn how to punch, you have to work on being balanced on your legs and feeling your legs under you. Feel the ground.

Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.

Good balance makes you a better dancer, musician, actor - anything.

No, my dance moves are always working no matter where I am. Whether at the house or if I'm out, at the facility working out, practicing, you gotta get the dance moves right. They help out with your footwork.

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.

Dancing really teaches you to be aware of your body, and that transitioned well into wrestling.

I'm not a very good dancer. My feet don't point far enough; my extension is embarrassing. Dance, for me, has been hard because it's a strive for perfection.

I've been working a lot on my lateral movement, and angles - it's coming natural to me now - and on different techniques, keeping my hands right.

Once I get a rhythm going, I can jump those hot dogs down.

I've got a lot of power in my kicks.

I don't ever train half-pipe except for the short training sessions during events, and because of that, I have a really hard time consistently putting my runs down smoothly.

More than anything I prefer the ball on the floor. I think I play my best football on the floor. There is a delicacy to this big giant.