Amy Ray Quotes

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

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

I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.

The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.

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.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

A big upper body is not a great thing for tennis, and for me, flexibility is important.

I've never been fast, but I can move well enough to do what I need to do.

I'm just comfortable all over the floor.

I see myself as a pretty mobile big man.

Everyone needs to move - if you're a pro athlete, a contortionist, a computer programmer, or just somebody who wants to play with their kids.

Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.

I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.

Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.

Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's a whole different ballgame that you're constantly working on - bent legs, loose ankles - which you cannot afford to do when you're doing jumps or anything else.

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

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

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.