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Quotes About Physicality

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.
~ Jim Brown
Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
~ Maggie Q
To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.
~ Martha Graham
One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence. ... I often seek electronic books, but they never come after me. They may make me feel, but I can't feel them. They are all soul with no flesh, no texture, and no weight.
~ Will Schwalbe
I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis.
~ Michael Light
You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.
~ David James Duncan
The moment where I realized how little I actually was, was when Dave Bautista picked me off the ground and I still wasn't even at his pec yet. I was like, "Oh my God, this man is massive."
~ Katee Sackhoff
It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.
~ Pamela Stephenson
You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
~ LeBron James
I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.
~ Mary McCormack
Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
~ Gary Snyder
You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I feel very very old. My hair hurts. I have buttocks all over my body and I can't even smoke properly any more. I don't have lungs, I just have two poppadoms in here.
~ Dylan Moran
There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.
~ Doris Humphrey
Guy's whole body was humming. Normally he thought only of his head – his eyes, his smile – and was aware of his body as merely the principle of forward propulsion trundling him along. But now he was all these bright pools of sensuality – his nipples, his half-hard cock, his tingling anus, even his feet. He was glowing all over and he felt the animal in him was longing to shed its clothes.
~ Edmund White
If you watch me play, you'll see how often I get kicked. I don't go off the pitch and cut myself to act like I've been kicked.
~ Wilfried Zaha
That's one reason fans take to me. They like the battle side of it. They look at me and think this guy shouldn't be on the pitch, he's just bulldozing his way through.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
I like being the biggest on the pitch, I don't want to look at the other guys and think his arms are bigger than mine.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
~ Karl Malone
The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.
~ Cindy Crawford
I'm a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.
~ Ansel Elgort
I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.
~ Joe Greene