I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.
My parents’ garden is where I learned to play – and love – football. When I was little, only 4 or 5, I’d be out there with my dad, who taught me how to pass and shoot, first with my left foot and then with my right.
I won’t step foot inside a new eatery without some strong recommendations or after consulting a site like Yelp or Urban Spoon.
I’m a really good driver. I’ve been driving since I was very small, and I do like driving fast. I remember the first time my dad taught me that when you go into a corner you change down then put your foot right down on the way out. I’m very competitive about driving.
The human foot has bones and muscles and can balance back and forth. If you step and you maybe make a little mistake, your foot can compensate. But if I step in the wrong spot, my foot isn’t going to compensate because it’s just one piece of carbon fiber.
I didn’t go into the Hall of Fame until I was a Hall of Famer. Three times I had been there, I never stepped foot inside.
What I find relatively funny is that I’m not a model. I’m five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or desire to be a model, I don’t live for fashion. But when an opportunity comes your way very early in your career, like Burberry, you do it.
I always play with long sleeves because Beckham always did it. He is my idol. He had a lot of class both on the pitch and outside. Nobody had his right foot. I would love to speak with him, but in Spanish because I don’t speak English.
I was on a few surveillance jobs as part of a big team. I would be the person to follow the subject on foot when the need arose. But most of the time, we were sitting in a car doing nothing.
I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.
A strong and dedicated mentor can help a young woman get her foot in the door, get a promotion and get a raise.
I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he was walking by, and he was like, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry!’ And I was like, ‘It’s all right. Robert Redford can step on my foot.’
I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.
You don’t service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the audience to invest in the fun and the warmth and generally care about the characters.
You just never know who is watching you – it is important to put your best foot forward.
I became a real racing nerd – I knew all the drivers and talked about karting all the time. I wanted to have a go, but when I got into a kart the noise scared me. I was also worried that I wouldn’t be able to control the brake with my foot.
Eventually we’re going to go to Mars, and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket.
I always try to put my best foot forward both inside and outside the ring.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
It’s not just fleet of foot or speed. It’s about who gets caught and gets knocked out.
My job is to go on the pitch and put my best foot forward.
As soon as I stepped foot in Minnesota, I’ve been shown nothing except love.
Being a mum and keeping a foot in the top end of the industry has not been easy.
Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.
I did the long jump and hurt my foot. It was a stress fracture in the left foot, which even now, 12 years on, is the bane of my life.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Well, you can’t compete with a six foot five man in a wig.
I might be six foot six but that doesn’t mean I can play a Steve Harmison role and bounce people out.
There are certain things you learn to do as a parent – using every single part of your body because you’re multitasking all the time. You’re holding the baby and you’re closing the door with your left foot.
I’m always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in the door: I’m always on the lookout for the next Broadway show.
I have a golden leg that I am completely proud of, but my left foot that has an open ulcer, no heel, and no toes. Over the years, my body has produced a lot of calcium, which causes my bones to grow on that foot.
I can play a cat lady. I can’t put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perfect, well-adjusted woman, because those people aren’t as fun or funny.
A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
My husband is very much of the ilk that expects to waited on hand and foot during the festive season.
My foundation mainly works in Chicago, and the city needs a lot of help. I’m glad that was able to be incorporated into what I’m doing with Wolverine. It’s important to keep one foot firmly planted at home and try to benefit my people well.
When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It’s an act of faith. I just follow my heart.
A lot of Brazilians are very superstitious, especially footballers. I’m the same. I always step on to the pitch with my right foot first.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile.
For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don’t want to stand out. You don’t want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I’m a product of nepotism. That’s how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
Federal employees are public servants, not partisan foot soldiers for President Obama, and shouldn’t have to decide whether a partisan White House request can be ignored without consequences.
I have to relearn how to walk again. It’s not that you have to reteach yourself. But your mind and your foot have to get back on the same page, and remind yourself that it’s OK to do this. You’ve done this before. It’s reminding it what it’s supposed to do again.
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
‘School for Wives’ is Moliere’s first step toward grand comedy, but he still has one foot in commedia.
I used to watch Beckham and Andrea Pirlo. Players like that, they had a fantastic right foot on them; everyone knows that.
Grocery stores can’t afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.
I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off.
Look at the best dribblers in the world, Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta, and the ball seems to stick to their foot, so I can work on that when I am dribbling.
I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco’s Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn’t want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.
I don’t see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.
When you’re at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That’s all there is to it.
It’s crazy: the first black man to actually step foot in America came as a free man, as an explorer, with the Spaniards. That’s something for me – as a black American, it gives me a little bit of pride because we were free and respected somewhere else before slavery became what it was.
Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient’s room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.
Too much of the national conversation about trade and the border comes from people who have not had the opportunity to step foot in border cities like San Diego.
One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
I know I have a left foot that was probably gifted to me by God, or someone up there, and I can always rely on it.
