As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

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.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

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

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Health consists with temperance alone.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

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 want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

My son has died of AIDS.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

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

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

I have little bones.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

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

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

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

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.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

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

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

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.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

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.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.