Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Every 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.

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

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

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

Precaution is better than cure.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

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

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

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.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

The first wealth is health.

I have little bones.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

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 drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

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

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

I don’t exercise.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

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

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

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

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

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.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

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.

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.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

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

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

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 believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I 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.