Quotes About Agility

the world is becoming more turbulent faster than most companies are becoming more adaptable.

The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.

It made me uncomfortable. I guess I've always been afraid of people who can be agile without grace.

I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack.

Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds, but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.

To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.

In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.

Flexibility is youth.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

As a quick, tricky player, I've been told that I don't go down enough because I've always tried to stay on my feet or I don't win clever fouls around the box. But when you are quick, the fastest way to be stopped is by being fouled so it happens to me a lot, even if I don't always maximise the opportunity.

At the pace I'm running, trying to get the ball, the slightest touch could trip me over. You don't have to literally push me over. That's what people don't understand. But unless you're able to run that fast, you'll never understand.

Trout moved, that's why he survived 12 rounds. If Hurd sat in front of me and took those shots, he'd be done.

I'm fast for my size. I'm very good at moving events - throwing, pulling trucks, Atlas stones. I win them all.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

I play basketball. I play center, and if you haven't watched me play, I'm not a regular big man. I can move my feet. Not saying I can stop anyone out there who's in front of me, but trust me: I can really be a problem on the perimeter guarding somebody.

I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.

In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.

Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

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