Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

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

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

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

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

F2’s much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

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 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.

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.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

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.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

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.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Just 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.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

I 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.

I love movement. I love moshing.

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

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.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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

Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

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

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.