Body Quotes

When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL. Now it’s kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can’t be a good coach because I was a great athlete.

If only were my skin like art shining against the mould, if only my body were a canvas brave if only.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.

Sometimes I don’t like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I’m healthy now.

As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.

Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

I’m a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

For him, my body was for him.