My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, ‚Ah yes, they good.‘ Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

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

I run New York City!

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Working out anchors my day.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

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

My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.