Fitness Quotes - Page 4

• Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Running, Exercise

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• The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Hate

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

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Workout, Monday

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

  Brock Yates

  Exercise, Thinking, Light

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• Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

  Izaak Walton

  Motivational, Health, Blessing

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 21

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

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Food, Work Out

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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• There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Time, Health

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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

  Health, Exercise, Jumping

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• The first wealth is health.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Yoga, Health

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.972, Library of America

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• Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Running, Exercise

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• If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

  Joey Adams

  Exercise, Bad Ass, Facts

  Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

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• Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Motivational, Work, Sleep

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• Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

  John F. Kennedy

  Cancer, Exercise, Growing

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

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• It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.

  Jonah Lomu

  Opportunity, Long, Given

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

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• Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

  Fred Perry

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

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• Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

  Joseph Pilates

  Motivational, Exercise, Bad Ass

  "Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology".

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• Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

  Lee Haney

  Exercise, Goal, New Years Resolution

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• Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

  Marquis de Sade

  Love, Life, Nature

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

  Thomas Fuller

  Health, Medicine, Physicians

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• You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

  Jim Otto

  Giving, Priorities, Redemption

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• 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 Ditka

  Sports, Workout, Believe

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

  Alan Thicke

  Fun, Games, Needs

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• I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Book, Weight Loss

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