Physical Fitness Quotes - Page 2

• A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

  Paul Dudley White

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

  Lois Capps

  Encouragement, Children, School

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• A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

  Judy Johnson

  Daddy, Wanted

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• Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Fitness, Order, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

  Rita Rudner

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Fitness, Work

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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• God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Fitness, Work, Exercise

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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• There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Fitness, Exercise, Discipline

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.50

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• I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

  Mark Twain

  Fitness, Humorous, Health

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Fitness, Running, Exercise

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• Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

  N.Y. Times, 17 Jan. 1985

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• Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Fitness, Dirty, Food

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• My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

  Phyllis Diller

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

  "New Again: Janeane Garofalo". Interview with Phyllis Diller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2015.

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• I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fitness, Food, Health

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• Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

  Cher

  Funny, Fitness, Health

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• The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

  Gene Tunney

  Fitness, Heart, Exercise

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• The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all his blessings-health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence-and leave me with but one gift I would ask him for faith. For with faith in him and his goodness, mercy and love for me, and belief in everlasting life, I believe I could suffer the loss of all my other gifts and still be happy.

  Rose Kennedy

  Faith, Believe, Loss

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• I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

  Neil Armstrong

  Fitness, Running, Believe

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• Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.

  Paul Dudley White

  Healthy, Brain, Adults

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• Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical fitness and mental prowess.

  Nita Ambani

  Sports, Winning, People

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• Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Wrestling, Greek

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961".

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• I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Religious, Exercise, Doctrine

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