fitness quotes

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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.

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

Glutes are power.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

I didn’t want to lift weights and get all big; I just wanted to get cut.

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.

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

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

I love being active.

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.

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

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don’t box, but I’ll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

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.

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

I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

I don’t exercise.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

I run New York City!

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

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.

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

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

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

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

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 am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!

The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.

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.

I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

I don’t like going to the gym. My biggest focus is the neck and endurance. I wear this ‚Fifty Shades of Grey‘ harness, with a resistance trainer pulling against it.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

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.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

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

Working out anchors my day.

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

I still work out on a daily basis.

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.

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

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

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.