Jane Krakowski Quotes

Power and speed be hands and feet.

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

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

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

Skating is a sport that I found a lot of interest in from a very, very young age. Ultimately, I think that being on the ice, being in the cold, and trying things and challenging myself in different ways is something that made me really interested in skating.

I'm a great inside and outside runner.

My background in gymnastics, martial arts, and dancing has translated very well in the ring.

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'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

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

I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.

Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.

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.

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.

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.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

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