Body Control Quotes

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

I could do a standing back flip at 13.

The burkini is not some new line of swimwear. It is the search version of the burqa and it has the same logic: hide women’s bodies in order to better to control them.

If you ask me to get a six-pack in the interim between signing a film, I will not do it. I enjoy food and will be happy to feed myself a pizza or two and gorge on cakes. But, I have good control over my body.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.

I had to lower my hands, I had to work my hips a different way. I also had to stride to get the power. I'd always been a standstill hitter and had to generate power from my upper body. Basically, I had to change everything I was doing. It was really difficult.

Most challenging, mainly for me, learning how to bump, learning to trust your body and trust somebody else with your body, when we're learning how to do bodyslams and suplexes and figuring out how to kick somebody right while making sure to protect each other. In the beginning, for me, a forward roll was pretty challenging.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

Every body has mind power, I have learned to direct it toward my body and thus influence the cold and heating-system of my metabolism.

You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.

When I'm acting and I have to remember my lines and put my mind in concert with my body, I don't tic.

If you look at some of the strongest athletes in the world, they're gymnasts. And they're the most flexible. You can be very strong, very flexible, and still be able to move.

In ten years of modeling, I've trained myself to relax and be able to use my upper body.

She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge. She brought her forefinger closer to her face and stared at it, urging it to move. It remained still because she was pretending... . And when she did crook it finally, the action seemed to start in the finger itself, not in some part of her mind.

Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.