Jump Rope Quotes

• If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons.

  Fred Rogers

  Dream, Children, Fun

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.

  Susan Messing

  Waiting, Rope, Steel

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• Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

  Tom Waits

  Goodbye, Song, Rope

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, etc.).

  Lee Haney

  Jumping, Training, Jogging

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• I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Children, Men

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Baseball, Pain

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it all. I like it because it's a small gym and I've known the people for a long time. Jon will have me do cross-training where I'll lift weights, jump rope, throw around a medicine ball and I never get to stop.

  Tim DeKay

  Workout, Medicine, Long

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