I didn’t want to lift weights and get all big; I just wanted to get cut.

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

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.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

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.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

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 train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

F2’s much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

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

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

I still work out on a daily basis.

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

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.

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!

I love being active.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

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.

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

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

I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

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.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

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.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

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

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

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.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

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

I’m much healthier now.

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.

I don’t like going to the gym. My biggest focus is the neck and endurance. I wear this ‚Fifty Shades of Grey‘ harness, with a resistance trainer pulling against it.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

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

I don’t exercise.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

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.

A feeble body weakens the mind.