My body’s feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that’s my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years.
I have been blessed with strong leg muscles, and dancing really exercises one’s legs.
I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It’s much more funny. It’s much more sophisticated. It’s much more arrogant, like a man with feminine attitude. I love pants.
No 13-year-old or over should ever be seen in trousers that finish above the ankle. It doesn’t matter how good your legs are, or if you’re on a beach in Bermuda where they invented the things.
I used to jump out of airplanes. I was a member of the 101st Airborne Division. When parachuting, you never look down at the ground. You feel for it with your legs. Your knees are your shock absorbers – you cannot tighten them. Same as skiing.
See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.
And the thing about healing is sometimes you feel like you’re making daily progress, and then, from nowhere, your legs get taken out, and you feel like you start again.
I’ve a big bum and chunky calves. My husband says I’ve got elephantiasis of the legs.
Gravity always sucks. It really, really does. It’s a big challenge just re-adapting to feeling heavy again, you know? Even my arm feels heavy. My legs feel heavy.
I was never bullied as a kid, and I didn’t know that I was going to be bullied by adults because I park in handicapped. And I get it – I’m young and athletic – but I’m also missing legs.
Oh, there’s a lot of breaks in our sport. Strained muscles, breaks, tears. I’ve seen teeth fly out before mouth guards were compulsory. Feet fractures are quite common, cheeks, faces, jaws, legs.
When you see an early edited version, you’re not sure what it is. The movie is getting on its wobbly legs.
My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes – we should be free about that. My legs are a bit dangly, and my knees point inwards. Everyone has insecurities, but I try not to focus on them. It’s important to be confident with what you’ve got.
I don’t wear mini-skirts or shorts because I have thread veins on my legs and cellulite, and I won’t wear tights.
If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I’m not so sure.
I think people are going to be surprised at how long my legs are compared to my torso, and my arms as well – I am a very lanky fellow.
Leg day is my favorite day. You can’t have a thorough leg workout without feeling completely spent. It’s a challenge, but the benefits of maintain muscle mass on my legs is important because, as the biggest muscle group in the body, it also helps me keep the proper body composition in terms of fat to muscle ratio.
You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.
Something I’ve been starting to use almost every day is a blood flow restriction system for my legs. It’s good for recovery and strength.
Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don’t make for interesting protagonists.
My father was a footballer. I used to play a lot as a kid, but not like a team or something, just with my family having fun. It makes your legs stronger and helps your co-ordination.
There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That’s the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.
And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.
You can be covered and be very sexy. It’s not what you show; it’s what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people.
I’ve never had my feet done and never had my legs waxed.
Wrestling is second nature: I’ve been doing it for so long, so if it looks like someone’s leg is available, it made sense for my first three fights that I would shoot for legs.
I’ve got a short torso and long legs, so I tend to wear longer tops and things that sit on my hips.
I’m not sure what came first, the hemline or the Charleston, but skirts needed to go up so the gals could kick their legs out.
I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent’s legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral fracture. They had to put in a plate and five screws. It was a devastating moment: one minute I was on cloud nine, and then I was out for the season.
I was scared of running off to be a comedian and then having to come back with my tail between my legs.
I found that doing Pilates consistently three to four times a week had an amazing effect on really toning and shaping a tight waist and legs.
The doctors said I might not be able to walk again. Today, I can almost run, but back then, I couldn’t even stand up. I was bed-ridden. If I wanted to turn over in bed, I had to move my legs with my hands. I was in and out of the hospital for months.
I really wanted to focus on my legs, and get the legs strong, get the quads strong so I can control the knee.
I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it’s a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.
The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.
Whether somebody think badly of me, whether somebody don’t feel that I should be doing this or I should be doing that way, I don’t really care. Whether they think that my fatigue is being laid, legs are skinny, I don’t care.
My back is full of metal; so are my hands and legs. I’ll have to decide who will get all that in my will. It’s probably worth a fortune in scrap metal. But it doesn’t affect my movement.
From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat chest, my skinny legs, or how to cope with my body as it changed. With hindsight, I can see I was different. I was given a body that worked for photographic modelling and a photogenic face.
My dad was a football player, and I’ve been the same size since eighth grade, so I get how it can be hard when you don’t fit in with the ‘normal-size’ girls, or your butt and legs are too big for normal-size jeans.
They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it’s your reflexes, then it’s your friends.
My body is so important to me… my face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have.
A week before shooting, they told me, You don’t have the part, yet. We’re still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‘crash’ when we tried to use them.
So he said ‘I’m going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.’ I thought ‘That’s a turn-up for the books.’
I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it’s best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.
I love seafood. Whenever I’m in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.
I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
San Diego is where I really started to get my legs, musically.
First time you step on these new legs, it’s bloody hard. It’s painful on your pelvic bones. But every day I get more of a feel for where my feet are.
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
I look upon meself as… You take a band that’s made up of arms, legs, bodies… I happen to be the piece that talks. And does all that area of it, you know? I’m also very easy to recognize; the darkie in the middle jumping around with the guitar, you know. Dat boy’s got rhydm!!!
It’s just as important to work on the little muscle groups as well as the big muscle groups. People, when they train, go to gyms. I call them ‘nightclub bodies’ – ginormous up top, and legs are little sticks. You see a lot of people, and they forget you can’t leave the little muscles behind.
