There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

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.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

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.

I eat next to nothing.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

I think hygiene is so important.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session – you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It’s a double whammy.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

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.

I have little bones.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

I’m much healthier now.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.