1. 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
2. The only weights I lift are my dogs. - Olivia Newton-John
3. 15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man. - Charles Atlas
4. When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session. - Robert Irvine
5. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. - Franklin Pierce Adams
6. Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy. - Vanessa Hudgens
7. I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run. - Michael Weatherly
8. Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise. - Paula Abdul
9. When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy. - Catherine Bell
10. Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease. - Jurgen Klinsmann
11. I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising. - Tia Mowry
12. 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
13. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. - Wilhelm von Humboldt
14. My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field. - Carol Vorderman
15. One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence. - Joel Edgerton
16. I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem. - Stone Gossard
17. A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice. - Sasha Cohen
18. You must also give mental and physical fitness priority. - Jim Otto
19. I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind. - Martina Hingis
20. Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. - Gloria Swanson
21. Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it. - Alan Thicke
22. To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise. - Gene Tunney
23. Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart. - Gene Tunney
24. Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise. - Brock Yates
25. What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories. - Kathy Freston
26. Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. - Fred Perry
27. Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally. - Mark Webber
28. Don't get hung up on the size. If you feel bad about yourself because a 12 is what fits, take a Sharpie, and write '6' on the label. - Stacy London
29. The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. - William Temple
30. 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
31. 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
32. It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is. - Deborah Bull
33. When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who'd eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, 'I'm famous. How can I be fat?' It was a slap. I decided to get fit. - Bipasha Basu
34. Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health. - James Thomson
35. I like exercise. I like a healthy body. - Erin Gray
36. We've got to get people out of their cars, out of those drive-thru windows, get them walking, get them in parks and get them more active. - Mick Cornett
37. I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did. - Peter Shilton
38. Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility. - Samantha Stosur
39. I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. - Kim Alexis
40. It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise. - Joely Fisher
41. Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again. - Warren Cuccurullo
42. Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK. - David Soul
43. I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth. - Jill Clayburgh
44. You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies. - Courtney Thorne-Smith
45. Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness. - Graeme Le Saux
46. In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable. - Knute Nelson
47. Yoga's an amazing release. - Monica Keena
48. For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar. - Daniela Pestova
49. I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body. - Tina Louise
50. Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. - Hugh Blair
51. I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue. - Donna Dixon
52. 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
53. A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. - Paul Dudley White
54. When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity. - Maria Montessori
55. For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it. - Andy Murray
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