If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.
Kamala HarrisMy son has died of AIDS.
Nelson MandelaI’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.
Mr. TJust 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 WillinkAs the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
H. L. MenckenMaybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
Stephen HawkingI 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 BradyMedicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
Leonardo da VinciIt seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
Terry PratchettIt occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe 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.
Pope FrancisThere’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.
Richard BransonThe citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.
Christopher HitchensMy son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!
Henny YoungmanIf you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.
Bill GatesWhen people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Mark ZuckerbergI 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 HartI don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.
Anthony BourdainMy rule is to break one sweat a day.
Matthew McConaugheyThe only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma BombeckWhat some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
Alexander PopeNobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Alexander HamiltonHealth consists with temperance alone.
Alexander PopeNow 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 WinehouseIf you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund BurkeAll diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.
Stephen CurryI 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.
Joel OsteenConnectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Bill GatesNo 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.
Muhammad AliCancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
Christopher HitchensTo lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin FranklinI don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.
Kevin GatesLet me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.
Billy GrahamExercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel JohnsonIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiNinety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
Bill GatesIf any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William JamesIn France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
Karl LagerfeldI’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
Erma BombeckHealth is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao TzuWhen your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.
Sunil ChhetriI heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey HepburnI have little bones.
Dolly PartonSome are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David ThoreauI have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
Karl LagerfeldDeath is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George CarlinI’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
Groucho MarxIt 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 KiyosakiI eat next to nothing.
Karl LagerfeldMy chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.
Angelina JolieDon’t get old, if you can avoid it.
Billy GrahamIt is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin FranklinIf you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.
Brian EnoI do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups.
Ruth Bader GinsburgPart 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 JohnsonWe can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.
Christopher HitchensHealth is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.
Mark ZuckerbergNot many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
Christopher Hitchens