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Quotes About Physicality

it's important to counterbalance the state of being cerebral with the state of being corporeal
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Even though I started out at right-back, I actually enjoy the contrast of playing both at full-back and in midfield. Both require physical attributes and a lot of energy.
~ Javier Zanetti
In England and Germany, perhaps, there is more of a focus on the physical side of the game, in breaking down the opposition's play, especially against the lower placed sides.
~ Toni Kroos
At first sight, Pogba was notable for his size and physicality, and when you got to know him, there was also a confidence about him.
~ Paul Scholes
When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
~ Dick Van Dyke
Don't try to kid yourself that your game is about pace if it isn't. If you're a big guy like me you need to look at how similarly built players use that physical presence to influence a game. Accept that your build may have some limitations - but plenty of plus points too.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
She kept sneaking looks at him. He had strong, chiseled features, his jaw softened by a day or two's growth of beard. And those shoulders. She'd always been a sucker for a guy's strong shoulders. Big square hands that looked as if they did harder work than writing biographies. No wedding band. At thirty, Isabel couldn't help noticing a detail like that.
~ Susan Wiggs
She could sense the length of him against her buttocks as well as a kind of heaviness, a substantive presence. He was changing right there under her, growing longer and thicker, information she acquired through the unlikely source of her bum, while he kissed her mouth. Heavens, what a sensation.
~ Judith Ivory
Physical compatibility is a question of skin first and foremost. If the contact of one skin on another isn't immediately pleasing nothing else can possibly matter, but if it is, all other things may follow.
~ Judith Krantz
Full lips are better for kissing.
~ Julia Quinn
It's grotesque to believe the body we inhabit we want to inhabit 24/7.
~ Arca
You have to try to win the ball at all costs and if someone doesn't get it quite right people get injured.
~ Sam Allardyce
For my size, I think I played bigger than my size. I tried to play bigger, which is probably why I got as injured as I did.
~ Barry Trotz
It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.
~ Alun Wyn Jones
When you act, your whole body is the instrument.
~ Charles Bronson
As an actor, your body is an instrument.
~ Stacy Martin
I play with a lot of intensity, and I'm quite strong in man-marking.
~ Fabinho
There are some roles that are more still and internal and emotional, and others that are more physical, which get you out of your mind for a while.
~ Morena Baccarin
La realidad es lo que nos ofrece resistencia, incluido nuestro propio cuerpo. Nuestro cuerpo es real, demasiado real, y por eso nos da tantos problemas, porque no se ajusta a nuestros deseos, no está sano a voluntad, no se cura cuando queremos.
~ Fernando Savater
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
~ Florenz Ziegfeld
Large people tend to have large heads. Men are no cleverer than we are, Miss Sunderly. Just taller.
~ Frances Hardinge
I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
~ Bo Jackson
Holding Naoko in my arms, I wanted to explain to her, I am having intercourse with you now. I am inside you. But this is really nothing. It doesn't matter. It is nothing but the joining of two bodies. All we are doing is telling each other things that can only be told by the rubbing together of two imperfect lumps of flesh. By doing this, we are sharing our imperfection.
~ Haruki Murakami
She didn't know what it meant to always want to be close to someone. She wanted to have the same experiences as him. She wanted to hit him and have a bruise appear on her body.
~ Heather O'Neill