Quotes About Physicality

For me, there's nothing more masculine than when I'm completely in control of my body and can call upon my body to do whatever I want it to do.

I had to be resilient playing non-League because I was 17 playing against men. I always knew how to beat someone and how to use my body. And that's one thing academy players don't really learn. Because in the academy you're playing against people your age. I was always playing against men.

The key for me will be to play as long as I can and hopefully to be physically like Roger when I'm 36.

As soon as we wrote the beat for 'Romeo,' I knew it was a running song. I was thinking about it in terms of the body. What do you want to do? It's not a song you want to dance to.

I remember I came into the NBA in 1999; the game was a little bit more rough. The game now is more for kids. It's not really a man's game anymore.

I'm accustomed to playing basketball really rough. When I came into the league, I was used to fighting on the court. That's how I grew up playing basketball.

Rugby and wrestling are sports for real athletes.

I'm about the size of a cornerback, maybe a free safety.

I mean, sometimes if you're not always going to win on the scoreboard, you want to make sure that you're there physically.

I got used to the physical play in Scotland and it taught me about some stuff for sure.

When you're taking on a Sean Dyche team, you know what's coming.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

A dancer's career is short - you just keep going until your legs pack up.

I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

I think that's my job to be a little nasty - to bring that energy, protect the paint and really just protect our guys. That's the role of a big man. It's not cute; it's not pretty being a big. You have to come in and do the little things, do the dirty work.

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

When you pancake a guy, and you feel their breath exhale, to me that's their soul leaving their body.

I don't know what parts of me the Ceph have blown away and I don't know how much else has been broken down to keep the rest of me going, but I know that at least my balls are still intact. I know this because I can feel them crawling back up into my abdomen.

I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I drew on a lot of Tolkein's descriptions of how he moves, but also the conceptual artist sketches.

As ballerinas, we don't use our voices. Our voice is the body and the movement quality.

Going into a game, I know that I'm going to run a lot. I know I'm going to have a lot of volume, and I know that I'm going to get hit a lot, which is great. Sometimes we try to deliver some blows, too, try to break as many tackles as possible. We know it's going to hurt the next day. That's why we love the game.

I believe that sex is good and so is the body.

Back when I got in the league, it wasn't a sexy game. It was more of a 'beat you down' game - you know, make sure you were strong.