Exercise Quotes

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

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

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.

I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

[On why she doesn't exercise:] If I tried to jog with these boobs, I'd end up with two black eyes.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

I don't exercise.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick will not be injured by getting wet. It is but taking a cold bath, which never gives a cold to any one. Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.

I walk: I prefer walking.

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.

I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.

I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something until it hurts, but I don't want to pass out or vomit in front of people.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.

I work out every morning. Only half an hour. I get on the treadmill. That's it. Every morning, I don't care what time. It gets your blood flowing. It gets your adrenaline flowing. I believe in eating well. It's not fanatical. Eat good food. Make sure you've got good vegetables.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.

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

The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings, practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play.

You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down.

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.

You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan.

Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.

Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

I would encourage every American to walk as often as possible. It's more than healthy; it's fun.

Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position.

I have been doing leg lifts faithfully for about fifteen years, and the only thing that has gotten thinner is the carpet where I have been doing the leg lifts.

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.