Athletic Quote by Misty Copeland

Some people learn to dance... Others are born to.

— Anonymous

You have to work with your body when you dance; you can't shy away from your physicality. For me, it's really linked to an…

— Christine and the Queens

In the dance world, it has to be in your genetic make-up - your body has to suit the training.

— Darcey Bussell

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is…

— Agnes de Mille

Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation…

— Gerald Jonas

Dance is a physical and mental workout. Once you get your body moving, you'll see a difference.

— Kathryn McCormick

What you put into your body is just as important as how hard you dance. I believe with the right training and an understanding…

— Misty Copeland

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.

— Agnes De Mille

I am athletic and I exercise a lot, so I might look like I dance, but I don't.

— Emma Weymouth

Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance…

— Stephen Boss

Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are…

— Clive Barnes

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

— Merce Cunningham