Exercise And Fitness Quotes

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.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

God never made his work for man to mend.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

Too many people I meet believe that you can sit in a chair and be given motivation. With exercise and fitness, you get it by doing. The mental qualities you need are all linked like a chain. If you give exercise a try and see results, even if it's as simple as feeling good that you get out the door, you'll become motivated to repeat the exercise. Seeing results is inspiring.

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

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.

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

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.

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

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.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Start where you are, use what you have.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.