Arthur Smith Quotes

I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes.

I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.

With my work, it's not possible to just cast a production and leave it. I have to nurture the group of dancers to make it happen.

Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.

Tennis is not really a traditional Olympic sport.

I loved being a Funkadactyl and was looking forward to us evolving together.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.

There's a scene in 'Singin' in the Rain' where this guy dances with a giant doll while singing 'Make 'Em Laugh.' I remember loving the pure physicality of it.

'Dance Moms' was one of the best experiences I've ever had in my life!

I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter, where you have your paint, and you have canvas, and you just go at it. I'm working with these living, breathing, functioning human beings, and they have their own thoughts and ideas about what works well movement-wise.

We always try to make up a new signature dance for our songs.

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.

You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.

I worked with dance a lot, for each character - different ways I could move my body, different music. It's the most fun thing in the world, because I love each and every one of the characters and I'd be happy just to play one of them, but the fact that I get to play upwards of six, seven, eight or whatever, it's a total dream.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.