Jacob Dalton Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.

Don't let the ball hit you. Catch it or get out of the way. And if you get out of the way, that's when you have to stop playing.

I think that wrestling guys has elevated my game in a whole different way. My timing, my transitions, everything is crisp. It's a whole different level.

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

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

When you get older, the first thing that starts to go is reflexes, and reflexes are important for any person, especially an athlete - to react to something in a time when something is going on, and you can't be a second or two behind.

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

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

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.

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

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.

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

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 was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

Not to sound corny, but if life is a sport, if you're moving to dive on a fumble or pick up a basketball in transition or pivoting to grab your toddler so he doesn't fall into a pool... those are real life movements.

I think overall body awareness and knowing exactly where I need to be makes a big difference. Knowing how much weight to put on each foot or where I need to put my hands are things I'm very good at. Obviously with the wrestling background those are things that come naturally.

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

When I'm aggressive and things are moving quick and my feet are in place, I'm a better, more accurate thrower.