Suzanne Farrell Quotes

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.

At 18 to 20, I was probably one of the quickest things around, at the peak of my powers.

There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.

No one is depressed when they're being chased by a bear.

I'm used to throwing my body around. I'm used to taking a punch.

There is always pressure in all matches in the World Cup. This is when you must go beyond your capacity as a competitor.

I'm more athletic than people think.

Every time I touched Ronda, connected a punch, I wanted more and more. That's why the fight was so fast. Every time I connected, I felt that she couldn't take it, so I threw more and only stopped when it was over. But it was good.

I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.

If I am at 100 percent fitness, I do not fear any competition for places in the first 11.

If I didn't have quads and hamstrings, soccer would be a lot different for me than it is now. I would be pushed all over the field. My lower body is something that has made me the player I am today, and it makes me feel strong.

Romeu is a physical and very powerful player.

As far as what it takes to play football, I've got all it requires.

Your body is an amazing machine that adapts to just about anything. If you're constantly changing what your body needs to adapt to, it's amazing what your body can do.

I think there is definitely a physical peak for people, and it's probably a little bit later than most people would believe.

In the pursuit of a championship and beyond, I'm determined to take my performance, on and off the field, to the next level. I'm confident that MET-Rx and their great lineup of sports nutrition products is the perfect partner to help me do just that.

Obviously, teams start wearing down. But that's kind of when you thrive, when the other team starts to get tired.

I'm very grateful for the way that I feel when I play. I feel very powerful, I feel fast, I feel unstoppable, and that's because of my body.

When I'm healthy and competing, I'm just a different type of player. That's the type of player everyone fell in love with.

I work on my body tremendously to be able to withstand whatever is thrown my way.

I tend to panic and fear on a low-grade level every day, but when something really disastrous happens, I kick into super high gear; a kind of transcendent, save-everybody mind-set.