Physical Feat Quotes

I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

I'm double-jointed. I can put my legs over my head, which freaks people out.

You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure.

It's amazing how much the human mind and body can do and achieve.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

I can play the harmonica with my nose.

You put the Set animal in your locker? Do you know how much strength that requires?” “Yeah,” I said. “I was there.

They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!

I think it's possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.

The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

On one of my birthdays I did 1,000 chin-ups and 1,000 push-ups. For my 70th birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it, my feet and hands tied-my hands were in handcuffs, my feet were tied together-and I towed these boats a mile-and-a-half in Long Beach Harbor. For my 93rd birthday I'm going to tow my wife across the bathtub.

I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.

It's the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.

When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.

There's something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that's done by you. There's also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.

As awkward as it is to manoeuvre a ladder around the squared circle, there is an incredible art to 'excellently executing' a ladder match.