Ben Hardy Quotes

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

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.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Pilates and yoga, we always do those together. But I think it's a little bit easier for me, at 5-7, to be more flexible and to move a little better than him at 6-5.

I have a flexible body.

I'm not the tallest or biggest player, so I have to move my body more.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres.

Every flight begins with a fall.

The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.

How fast were you?" Wes asked me. I said, "Not that fast." "You mean you couldn't... fly?" he said, smiling at me.

How much you move affects your strength, your power, your balance, how you look, how you think, how well you withstand the high winds and rain showers of life and how long you will stand. Everyone needs concentrated doses of several kinds of movement to remain functional.

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground.

You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.