Fitness famous quotes
05-15-2025
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
-- A. A. Milne -
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.
-- Alan Thicke -
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
-- Alex Karras -
exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.
-- Alissa Nutting -
You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.
-- Alissa Nutting -
And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.
-- Amy Irving -
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!
-- Andy Rooney -
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
-- Ann Oakley -
I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
-- Anna Quindlen -
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.
-- Babe Ruth -
Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.
-- Barbara Holland -
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.
-- Bill Loguidice -
running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!
-- Brenda Ueland -
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
-- Brock Yates -
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
-- Bruce Lee -
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett -
My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.
-- Carol Vorderman -
A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.
-- Cassey Ho -
When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.
-- Catherine Bell -
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas
-- Charles Dickens -
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
-- Chauncey Depew -
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
-- Cher -
Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
-- Cher -
It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.
-- Cheryl Tiegs -
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.
-- Christiaan Barnard -
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
-- Christian D. Larson -
If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.
-- Chuck Norris -
Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.
-- Cynthia Heimel -
For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.
-- Daniela Pestova -
Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.
-- David Soul -
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
-- David Viscott -
It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.
-- Deborah Bull -
I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
-- Dolly Parton -
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases
-- Edward Jenner -
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Keep calm and carry on. A challenging time is just that - a period in time. Taking a few deep breaths and knowing that it won't last forever really allows me to focus on the present moment and task at hand.
-- Elizabeth Armstrong -
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.
-- Ellen Goodman -
Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.
-- Elsa Pataky -
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
-- Epictetus -
The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.
-- Erin Gray -
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
-- Eva Green -
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
-- Franklin P. Adams -
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
-- G. M. Trevelyan -
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
-- Gene Tunney -
To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
-- Gene Tunney -
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
-- George A. Sheehan -
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
-- George A. Sheehan -
Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.
-- George Carlin -
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
-- George S. Patton -
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
-- George William Curtis -
Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.
-- Graeme Le Saux -
Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland -
THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow -
I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
-- Haile Gebrselassie -
Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal.
-- Harley Pasternak -
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner
-- Henry Sambrooke Leigh -
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
-- Hippocrates -
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
-- Hugh Blair -
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
-- Izaak Walton -
my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.
-- J. A. Jance -
By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.
-- Jack LaLanne -
Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray 'Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.'
-- Jack LaLanne -
First of all, let's get one thing straight: fitness and exercise aren't the same thing. You can exercise without getting fit, but you can't get fit without exercise.
-- Jaclyn Smith -
The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.
-- Jacqueline Gareau -
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
-- James Freeman Clarke -
Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you'll have a junk body.
-- Jeanette Jenkins -
You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.
-- Jen Lancaster -
I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
-- Jesse Owens -
I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.
-- Jill Clayburgh -
Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.
-- Jill Johnson -
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!
-- Jillian Michaels -
Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.
-- Jillian Michaels -
You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.
-- Jim Otto -
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
-- Joan Dye Gussow -
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.
-- Joan Walsh Anglund -
It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
-- Joely Fisher -
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
-- Joey Adams -
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
-- John F. Kennedy -
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
-- John F. Kennedy
