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With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

One man cannot practice many arts with success.