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.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

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 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.

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

I love movement. I love moshing.

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The first wealth is health.

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.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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.

My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

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

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

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.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

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

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.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

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.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

I 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.

It 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.

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

Precaution is better than cure.

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

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you’d quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

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.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

A 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.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

I’m frugal. I’m not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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