Health, Fitness & Wellness: Fitness Quotes

"I'm not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda hate talking about it. Weights are a little too much for me"

Kevin Nealon, Actor

"Like most people, I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim, and run, and I love to play soccer"

Viggo Mortensen, Actor

"To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors"

Al Oerter, Athlete

"There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better"

Magnus Magnusson, Journalist

"Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds"

Carrie Underwood, Musician

"You can't play when you're not 100% fit, especially at this level"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out, and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body"

Rachel Blanchard, Actress

"According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world"

Brad Paisley, Musician

"I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff"

Teri Garr, Actress

"I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results"

Taylor Dayne, Musician

"I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"More yoga in the world is what we need"

Diane Lane, Actress

"Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born"

Cindy Crawford, Model

"It's not like I was trying to be sexy, but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also, I wanted that if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape"

Daniel Craig, Actor

"I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run"

Izabella Scorupco, Actress

"I've never been to the gym. I do nothing"

Adriana Lima, Model

"The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most"

Jonah Lomu, Athlete

"I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"I have to say, I kind of love all that stuff - those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time when I'll get sick of it, but at this stage, I just like it all"

Richard Roxburgh, Actor

"So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse"

George A. Sheehan, Writer

"Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders"

Joe Gold, Businessman

"That's the object of going to a gym, having fun"

Joe Gold, Businessman

"I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit"

John Newcombe, Athlete

"When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking"

Joe Gold, Businessman

"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, Athlete

"Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

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