Physical Restriction Quotes

We, as sportsmen, we're not used to just sitting at home and being at home all day. We want to go out. We want to play sport. We want to be in the gym, want to train; we want to hit balls, and when you're not physically able to do that, it's really tough. It starts playing on the mind a lot more.

It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.

Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.

When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.

When you can't do road work for a week-and-a-half, that's really hard on your weight cut.

I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands.

Very fitted dresses look much better on TV, even though in reality they might be so tight that I can barely move in them.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.

It's really tough when you have back injury because you cannot bend; you cannot react at the balls.

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

When I sing with Loaded, I can't move at all. I'm playing guitar, and I'm singing.

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.

Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.

It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.

When you're in a very specific kind of wardrobe, it kind of dictates your movement; it also kind of enables you - or, I guess, disables you - from certain kinds of movement.

The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

I do Pilates. And that's best for me... because I can't really do any other sports any more because of my muscles.