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.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

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

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

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

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.

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

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

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

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

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.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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.‘

I play a nobody in Japan.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

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’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

A chorus is not easy.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

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 become vegan – I don’t take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion.

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.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

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.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

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

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

I’m much healthier now.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

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

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.