Physical Ability Quotes:

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Indomitable, Indomitable Spirit

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

- Bruce Jenner

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Athlete, Assets, Ability, Softball Player, Inspirational Athlete

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

- Jimmy Rollins

topic: Hard Work, Way, Ability, Physical Ability

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

- Rowan Atkinson

topic: Thinking, Littles, Facts, Childlike, Physical Ability

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Champion, World, Physical Ability

There is a difference between CAN'T and WON'T. 'Can't' can be the result of lacking physical ability, but 'won't' has more to do with attitude.

- TJ Hoisington

topic: Attitude, Differences, Results, Physical Ability

Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

- Janice Kaplan

source: Janice Kaplan (1979). “Women and Sports: 2”, Viking Adult

topic: Sports, Believe, Important, Physical Ability

As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Strong, Exercise, Men, Physical Ability

Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness!

- Bryan Kest

topic: Believe, Judging Yourself, Worry, Physical Ability, More Is Better

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

- Aleister Crowley

source: "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 48, 1969.

topic: Determination, Destiny, Ideas, Physical Ability

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.

- Deborah Bull

topic: Space, Dancer, Brain, Emerging, Physical Ability

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

- Mary, Queen of Scots

topic: Teacher, School, Medicine, Medical Education, Medical School

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

- Chuck Norris

topic: Art, School, Korea, Black Belt, Physical Ability

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

- Jim Valvano

source: Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

topic: Basketball, Cancer, Heart, Inspirational Cancer, Inspiring Cancer

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

- Polly Toynbee

source: "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

topic: Mother, Doctors, Dying, Morphine, Physical Ability

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that.

- Michelle Yeoh

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Discipline, Roles, Demand, Geisha, Physical Ability

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

- Rudolf Nureyev

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Nature, Ability, Physical Ability

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

topic: Science, Hands, Use, Physical Ability

Boxing is a science. You don't just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability, but you also see a big difference in their skills. That's the trainers influence at work.

- Eddie Futch

topic: Skills, Differences, Boxing, Physical Ability, Skills Development

When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology. The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears.'

- Philippe Halsman

topic: Real, Fall, Jumping, Shutters, Airborne

Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.145, Penguin

topic: Kids, Years, Brain, Sydrian, Physical Ability

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

- Branch Rickey

topic: Baseball, Men, Swings, Exactitude, Syllables

I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional trauma of a serious illness even though they may never fully regain their physical capabilities. Which is the greater healing? Which is the better recovery? If I had the option of choosing between a mediocre life with eyesight or the life I have today, even though I am blind, I'd stay blind and keep the life I have.

- Jim Stovall

topic: Recovery, Healing, Emotional, Serious Illness, Mediocre Life