Agility

Agility or nimbleness is an ability to change the body's position quickly and requires the integration of isolated movement skills using a combination of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, strength, and endurance.

Quotes

 * Youth is nimble, Age is lame;
 * Anonymous, "Crabbed Age and Youth"
 * The Passionate Pilgrim (1599)


 * A Lustie wench as nimble as an Eele, Would give a Gallant leave to kisse and feele,
 * John Taylor, "Epigram", in Works (1630)


 * “Many games,” said old Iagoo, “Many games of skill and hazard Have I seen in different nations, Have I played in different countries. He who plays with old Iagoo Must have very nimble fingers; Though you think yourself so skilful, I can beat you, Pau-Puk-Keewis, I can even give you lessons In your game of Bowl and Counters!”
 * Longfellow, Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part XVI


 * Girl! nimble with thy feet, not with thy hands! Curl’d minion, dancer, coiner of sweet words!
 * Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum (1853)


 * Why did the Lord give us agility If not to evade responsibility?
 * Ogden Nash, "Common Sense", in Hard Lines (1931), p. 85