I don’t exercise.

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.

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.

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.

I have allergies, and I’ve had my share of nosebleeds, but that’s usually related to pollen.

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

Now 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.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

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 know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

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.

I still work out on a daily basis.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

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

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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.

I always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.

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

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

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

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.

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

I love movement. I love moshing.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

If 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.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

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’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

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.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

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

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

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

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

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

I 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.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

I take my sleep very, very important.

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.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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.