Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

I can't really grip the ball with my left hand.

I was a super active kid, so I've always been aware of where my body is in space, and I think when I had my legs amputated, it makes you more aware of your body, and because I don't use my legs, I use more of my hands.

If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

I always wanted to be ambidextrous, ever since I was a little girl. I wanted to be able to use both hands, and I still use my left hand a lot.

For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

I've gotten more buff.

My fans go crazy over jaw clenches. They also love hand veins... they're infatuated with hands in general.

The more you change and stress the body the quicker it's going to adapt and change.

I put on muscle really quick.

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

My hands make me a little longer, and that's always a good thing.

It's insane going from skiing to cycling. Even though you are in prime shape, you feel like you have never worked out a day in your life.

Gravity always sucks. It really, really does. It's a big challenge just re-adapting to feeling heavy again, you know? Even my arm feels heavy. My legs feel heavy.

A motion-sensing controller that you hold with both hands is completely different from one that you can use with either your right or left hand.

I have butt muscles, thigh muscles, and then my upper body is super skinny - except for in my shoulders, which you need for a little bit of strength to hold other players off the ball. So I think I've developed muscles 100 per cent from just shooting the ball and running. Every single thing about my body looks like soccer.

When I got a stronger core, my hands weren't able to keep up. They weren't able to tolerate the force my core was generating.

The idea behind resistance training is that you're basically tearing something and creating a microtrauma in the muscle. When the muscle recovers, it's going to recover stronger and denser than it was before.

When you train every day your body starts to change. The biggest thing I have noticed is my bum.

I'm left-handed.

When I was younger, my feet would hurt a lot, but you build up calluses and strength, and you don't feel as much pain there. But then again, it's a give and take. The older you get, you may feel pain in your back or your hips.