EXERCISE QUOTES
quotations about exercise
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven today, and we don't know where the hell she is.
ELLEN DEGENERES
attributed, Health and Humor
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The Worst Years of Our Lives
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.
ANNA QUINDLEN
Living Out Loud
Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do.
EDITORS
Women's Health UK
It hurts now, but one day it will be your warm up.
ANONYMOUS
Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom.
JACK LALANNE
"30 Inspirational health quotes by fitness guru Jack LaLanne", Examiner, May 18, 2013
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.
MARSHA DOBLE
attributed, Quote Unquote
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
HUGH BLAIR
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
EDWARD STANLEY
attributed, Quote Unquote
I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.
ERMA BOMBECK
Forever
If exercise isn't near the top of your priority list, it will never get done. Taking care of your health has to come before taking care of the laundry or the dishes.
MARIE SAVARD
The Body Shape Solution to Weight Loss and Wellness
Physical fitness takes commitment to exercise just as it requires good nutrition. But it doesn't have to be painful. Just the opposite: Vigorous exercise actually is stimulating. It boosts your energy levels, invigorates your mind, and just feels good afterward. The hardest part, of course, is getting started.
JACK LALANNE
Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness
Does refusing to go to the gym count as resistance training?
MIKE MCCARDELL
Shoelaces are Hard: And Other Thoughtful Scribbles
No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everybody on the couch.
EDITORS
Elite Daily
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.
JAMES THOMSON
The Castle of Indolence
The hard part of regular exercise is the "regular" and not the exercise.
STEVEN JONAS
ACSM's Exercise is Medicine
Exercising would be so much more rewarding if calories screamed while you burned them.
ANONYMOUS
I exercise because I like the way body, mind, and spirit converge during physical activity.
KIRK BYRON JONES
Morning B.R.E.W.
Health clubs aren't healthy. In New York City, which has the most stairs of anywhere in the country, people pay money to go to a health club and use a stair master. When you live in a city, that has nothing but stairs and you pay money to use special stairs, that is not healthy behavior. It's f***ing PSYCHOTIC!
LEWIS BLACK
Rules of Engagement