There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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.

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

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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.

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

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

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

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

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

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.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

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

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

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, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

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

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.

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

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.

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.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

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

I don’t exercise.

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.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

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

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

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

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

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.