Fitness Quotes - Page 11

• When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.

  Bill Loguidice

  Work Out, Intensity, Length

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• First of all, let's get one thing straight: fitness and exercise aren't the same thing. You can exercise without getting fit, but you can't get fit without exercise.

  Jaclyn Smith

  Exercise, Firsts, Get Fit

  Jaclyn Smith (1986). “The American look”, Fireside

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• You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.

  Alissa Nutting

  Breakup, Workout, Exercise

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• Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

  Hippocrates

  Funny, Humor, People

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• Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Exercise, Order

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.265, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Animal

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.73, Penguin

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• Though she be but little, she is fierce!

  William Shakespeare

  Tattoo, Zebras, Healing

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323

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• Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Disco Music, Cable Tv, Orangutans

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• A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Dog, Exercise, Machines

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• We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

  Joseph Pilates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Health

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• In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

  Knute Nelson

  Sleep, Hard Times, Good Health

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• I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.

  Jillian Michaels

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mom

  "Jillian Michaels' Secrets to the Strongest You Ever". Interview with Alison Prato, www.health.com.

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• Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Motivational, Running, Work Out

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• I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Running has never failed to give me great end results, and that's why I keep coming back for more!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Running, Giving, Ends

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• Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Workout, Clothes, Presidential

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• Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.

  Barbara Holland

  Lonely, Exercise, Boring

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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  Hal Borland

  Love, Funny, Life

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• I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Running, Fighting

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• The physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of each individual citizen to make full and fruitful use of his capacities.

  John F. Kennedy

  Opportunity, America, Full Potential

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!

  Jack LaLanne

  Motivational, People, Work Out

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• If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

  Bill Bowerman

  Motivational, Running, Men

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• If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight.

  Subodh Gupta

  Loss, Healthy, Weight

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• We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Motivational, Exercise

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• If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

  Ken Robinson

  Workout, Jobs, Real

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