Fitness quotations

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◆ Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

- James Thomson99

◆ 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.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

- Fred Perry99

◆ Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

- Mike Ditka99

◆ Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

- Viggo Mortensen99

◆ I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

- Peggy Fleming99

◆ You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

- Jack LaLanne99

◆ It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

- Deborah Bull99

◆ I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

- Michael Weatherly99

◆ Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

- Alan Thicke99

◆ Practice puts brains in your muscles.

- Sam Snead99

◆ A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

- Emil Zatopek99

◆ Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

- Hugh Blair99

◆ The best day to start exercising is today. Tomorrow can turn into weeks, months or years

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◆ If you are making mistakes with your meals, DO NOT waste your time at the gym. No matter how hard you work, a bad diet will F it all up.

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