Top 15 Quotes by Robert Battle

Eating is a necessity but a pleasure as well.

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.

I remember the Food Network when it was first starting out: Emeril Lagasse and all those people who helped make it when it was on a shoestring budget. It actually encouraged me to start cooking.

Performing abroad is ambassadorial.

There's a part of me that never felt my mother abandoned me. I always felt that she did the right thing.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.

I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.

I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.