1. Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. - George Bernard Shaw 

2. Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee 

3. In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation. - Robert Kennedy 

4. When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too. - Willie Nelson 

5. If you want to break through, your mind should be able to control your body. Your mind should be a part of your fitness. - Eliud Kipchoge

6. No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? - Jose Rizal 

7. No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February. - Suze Orman 

8. You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful. - Martha Stewart 

9. A typical week of training leading up to a major championship is like the sprinkling of parsley at the end of a dish. It's just the final little touches, that last little bit of strength or fitness, but mostly you are ready and are just maintaining and staying healthy. - Megan Rapinoe 

10. It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve. - Martha Beck 

11. As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time. - Joe Rogan 

12. For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that. - Lance Armstrong 

13. Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work. - Lance Armstrong 

14. It's so easy to lose your fitness and so hard to gain it back. - Alex Morgan 

15. I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off. - Bryce Dallas Howard 

16. Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be. - Khloe Kardashian 

17. My fitness journey will be a lifelong journey. - Khloe Kardashian 

18. Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness. - Richard Simmons 

19. I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard. - George Foreman 

20. I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people. - LL Cool J 

21. There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas. - Charlie Brooker 

22. The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. - Charles Babbage 

23. We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour. - Phil Knight 

24. We took advantage of the running boom, which became the jogging boom, which became the fitness boom... and we've benefited from all of that. - Phil Knight 

25. During a packed season, maintaining fitness becomes tough because you can't put too much effort into it. You're constantly monitoring workloads. - MS Dhoni 

26. I think people who become compulsive about fitness or eating right, a lot of the time it's out of fear that they're going to lose control or that they're not good enough, so I think anything done out of fear or motivated by fear is often unhealthy. - Mark Manson 

27. When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business. - Bob Harper 

28. When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me. - Cesar Millan 

29. Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying attention to fitness is all about moving in balance. - Goldie Hawn 

30. The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. - Andre Maurois 

31. What makes me relaxed is the fact that I know I've put in a lot of time during the offseason on my fitness. - Naomi Osaka 

32. You can be in excellent physical shape, with low cholesterol, a healthy body weight and good overall physical fitness - but that doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy. - Michael Greger 

33. I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then wouldn't have to age at the same rate that they would if they were not more active. In other words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important. - Raquel Welch 

34. I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn't even think about my weight - but now I work hard at keeping healthy. Fortunately, my husband Richie is as much of a fitness buff as I am. - Raquel Welch 

35. It is really important that we get more women doing exercise and being active, and those that have taken up boxing or boxing training will definitely find that it has a really positive impact on their health, fitness and well-being. - Nicola Adams 

36. I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I go to the gym. I do yoga as well. - Linda Evangelista 

37. The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders. - Dayananda Saraswati 

38. People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people. - Deepika Padukone 

39. I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot. - Joan Collins 

40. Fitness is a luxury when you are busy! - Lauren Conrad 

41. I'm not a fitness buff. - Caroline Flack 

42. The best fitness tip is that you don't need to be out of breath and do cardio to get in shape. - Caroline Flack 

43. For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people. - Jillian Michaels 

44. I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love. - Jillian Michaels 

45. Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice. - Ziggy Marley 

46. I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don't want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that's why I always, always try to get a workout in. - Jake Paul 

47. Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths. - Carli Lloyd 

48. The funny thing is, we teach - as a culture, we teach people that it's OK to talk about your fitness goals... Like, I want to be more physically fit, I want to drop 10 pounds, but no one's talking about how I can spend 10 days to get happier. - Karamo Brown 

49. 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 

50. 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 

51. I never stop working when I'm on stage, and that's my fitness. - Jessie J 

52. Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert. - David Perlmutter 

53. At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts. - Heather O'Reilly 

54. In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running. - Bear Grylls 

55. In the U.S., my whole life, I felt like I had to be the best and score more goals and run with more fitness so I could be the one in the limelight. I think that when I went to Sweden, I found the joy of being part of a team and contributing to everybody's success. - Christen Press