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.

Why did the Lord give us agility
If not to evade responsibility?
    —Ogden Nash

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