Fitness Quotes

"The human body is the best work of art."

Jess C. Scott

"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"

Jess C. Scott

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

Tricia Cunningham

"A stationary bike is a device that epitomizes the phrase “hurry up and wait."

Jarod Kintz, $3.33

"Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!"

Jillian Michaels

"No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!"

Tricia Cunningham

"My knowledge is mine to use as I see fit. But I’m way too out of shape to see fit."

Jarod Kintz

"My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all."

Andy Murray

"I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things."

Jenson Button

"For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive."

Jenson Button

"With fitness, I do Bikrams hot yoga. The gym that I have in my building is amazing. I love to do cardio and weights there."

Shay Mitchell

"They both go together you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less."

Kiana Tom

"I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be."

Matthew Rhys

"Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise."

Gordon Strachan

"I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man."

Frank Bruno

"As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life."

Lee Haney

"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced."

Marquis de Sade

"Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise."

Paula Abdul

"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Jim Rohn

"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."

Thomas Jefferson

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."

Thomas Jefferson

"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."

John F. Kennedy

"Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them."

Lee Haney

"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."

Denis Waitley

"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."

Hippocrates

"Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed."

Charles M. Schulz

"If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world."

Vinoba Bhave

"The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it."

Joan Rivers

"Exercise is labor without weariness."

Samuel Johnson

"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."

Lord Chesterfield

"I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy."

Lady Gaga

"There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it."

Josh Billings

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

Franklin P. Adams

"Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it."

Alan Thicke

"And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet."

Julie Bishop

"Practice puts brains in your muscles."

Sam Snead

"Quit worrying about your health. It will go away."

Robert Orben

"A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket."

Emil Zatopek

"Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home."

Michael Phelps

"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

"I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes."

Peggy Fleming

"I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while."

Sting

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

George A. Sheehan

"Muscles come and go flab lasts."

Bill Vaughan

"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

"Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart."

Gene Tunney

"Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well."

James Freeman Clarke

"I would rather exercise than read a newspaper."

Kim Alexis

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