Quotes About Exercise

I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.

I like physical exercise. I cycle, run, and play tennis and football with my son.

I don't like running that much, and during the off-season, I have to do it, but if I can replace it with tennis, it is better.

I played a lot of tennis when I was young.

I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.

I play tennis because I like it.

I still play a bit of tennis, but only a knockabout to help with my recovery after a game.

I would blast AC/DC and walk out onto the tennis court and try to hit the ball hard.

I am an avid tennis player.

We think there are better solutions to fighting poverty because we see what the War on Poverty has produced. It produced tens of trillions of dollars in spending. It has been a 51-year exercise, and yet the poverty rates in America today are not much better than when we started the War on Poverty.

Constant tension should be applied to the last five reps of every working set, meaning, do the first 5-6 reps normal tempo, and the last few reps should be held for at least two seconds at the peak of the contraction. This allows your muscles to have more time under tension, and you work different muscle fibers.

Thanks to the football, every time I go out and play, it releases the tension, and you forget about the problems.

As you do Pilates, use your breath to draw your mind into the present and whisk the tension out of your body.

I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!

For me, fitness is a part of my everyday life. But fitness does not mean having big muscles; it means being active, quick, and flexible. It can be defined in many terms.

I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

I love running. I've been running ever since middle school. In terms of clearing your head and restarting everything, I love running.

Hills are terrific for running.

I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.

A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.

A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

I'll take 20 flights of stairs. I'm terrified of elevators.

I've never SoulCylcled or CrossFit-ed. That sounds terrifying to me!

Parisians won't admit that they go to the gym, let alone that they're scared of terrorists.