Body Coordination Quotes

When you're using your upper body to live, you get to know how to move every muscle.

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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.

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.

You can't hit without your hands.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

I love rhythmic dancing - I'm not derogating it at all. It's just that sometimes you want to whisper, "I adore you." And for that you need strings and woodwinds.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

I have never been graceful, never been elegant.

How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

I'm basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what's known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.

Make sure I'm chewing, swallowing, and breathing, my whole body is working together. I can just find a rhythm and keep going and going and going. It's my love of food.

It's awkward doing it with anybody, but it's like Twister.

The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.

The hands are the feet of the arms.

Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn't work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don't work! We must have a coordination system.

A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.

I was gymnast for a long time, so that helped with understanding my body.

Playing upside down is insane. It's two or three times more difficult than what's normal. Your feet want to come off the pedals, your arms want to drop down - all of your body is fighting gravity.