Chris Gardner Quotes

When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.

Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

No, my dance moves are always working no matter where I am. Whether at the house or if I'm out, at the facility working out, practicing, you gotta get the dance moves right. They help out with your footwork.

I use my mind. I set up blocks. I wait for things to open. I time up things. I use a lot of skill catching the ball.

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

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

I dazzle you with that footwork.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

More than anything I prefer the ball on the floor. I think I play my best football on the floor. There is a delicacy to this big giant.

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

You can always get better with your ballhandling.

I've been working a lot on my lateral movement, and angles - it's coming natural to me now - and on different techniques, keeping my hands right.

Even as a kid, I'd kick a tennis ball against a wall with both feet for hours. That was one way to become two-footed.

I catch the ball. You throw the ball, I catch it. You throw it close to me, I catch it. If you make me do something crazy to catch, I still catch it.

Once I get a rhythm going, I can jump those hot dogs down.

I'm a very coordinated individual.

I believe I'm better than everybody when it comes to footwork, timing, reflexes, defense, you name it.

I began to play with both feet very early. So it is normal that I can play well with each of them.

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.

People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.

A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all that, it's a process of joining with forces.