Walking is man’s best medicine.
HippocratesExercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Henry FordYou’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Dr. SeussI’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.
Anthony HopkinsI love being active.
Dolly PartonIf 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.
Dwayne JohnsonI worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.
Karl LagerfeldNow 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.
Amy WinehouseI have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
Karl LagerfeldI 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.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.
Karl LagerfeldI’m much healthier now.
Amy WinehouseTeam 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.
Haruki MurakamiI 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.
Tom BradyThe 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.
Nikola TeslaPeople 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.
Conor McGregorI like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
Joel OsteenAll I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.
Tom BradyI do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
Lady GagaA feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIt’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.
Stephen CurryI 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.
Tom BradyF2’s much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.
Lando NorrisI think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.
Richard BransonI am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.
Bad BunnyMy goal is to be number one in MMA.
Conor McGregorNo man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry AdamsA fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.
Virat KohliI 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.
David GogginsAkron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I’m still working out at my old high school.
LeBron JamesWalking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas JeffersonI train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.
Conor McGregorMy movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.
Elvis PresleyI 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.
RihannaIt 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.
Robert KiyosakiMy doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘
Steven WrightI was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.
Jocko WillinkJust 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.
Jocko WillinkThe 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.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerJiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.
Jocko WillinkSome 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.
Jocko WillinkThe successful men I admired all built their bodies.
Dwayne JohnsonI’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
Erma BombeckI 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.
Tom BradyEvery 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.
Tom BradyI’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.
EminemI’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.
Haruki MurakamiPart 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.
Dwayne JohnsonI 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.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThat summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.
Stephen CurryThe only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma BombeckFor 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.
Dwayne JohnsonIf you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
Matthew McConaugheyI have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
Anthony HopkinsNothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!
Ariana GrandeThere’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.
Richard BransonFor different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.
Dwayne JohnsonI like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don’t box, but I’ll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.
Kevin HartThe 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.
Dwayne JohnsonIf 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.
Jocko Willink