Repetitive Motion Quotes

Each match is a huge effort from a physical point of view. You can only hit so many balls before your elbow or some part of your body is going to say, 'Hey, don't do that to me.'

I can throw a football all day and my arm doesn't get tired. If I throw a baseball more than a certain amount of time, it's going to get a little sore.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

Because cycling is a repetitive front to back motion you never go side to side with your legs, the muscles and joints are really going to protect themselves when you have arthritis. So continually working on opening things up helps to alleviate pain.

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It's known as jumper's knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees take.

Everything is repetition in baseball. When you get all out of whack and do something different, you feel weird.

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.

His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly. An image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone.

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

If I was a stone mason or if I was a painter or building bridges or whatever, there's going to be some wear and tear on your body and your brain. And that's just the way it is.

I prefer running on the track because, for me, the treadmill can get a little boring.

The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.

It is difficult to say how muscle injuries occur.

Any time you are inverting yourself three times in a single air trick, you have to be cautious to execute properly and avoid injury.

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

I started getting RSI in my wrists and my elbow from playing really hard, so I started looping.

Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.

I invented this wonderful death scene for Javert of going down on my knees and then leaning back like a limbo dancer to make it look as if I was falling off a bridge. I did it eight times a week for nearly a year and I've had trouble with my knees ever since - they don't even allow me to jog these days.

Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.

Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.

Ballet can be hard on your joints, and when you're on a movie set doing take after take, it can become really repetitive.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.