Quotes About Exercise

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

Muscles are hard to get and easy to lose. Fat is easy to get and hard to lose.

and as long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

I decided to go swimming. I don't know how to explain this, but I wanted to purge my body of something by exercising it to the limit. Purge it—of what? I spent some time wondering about that. Purge it of what? I didn't know.

To shake off things like this I need to move—outside. I used to exercise for my body, but these days it's more for my soul.

He did tai chi in the park with a group of senior citizens. … It looked like a ship had sunk and these were the passengers, slowly sinking to their grave at the bottom of the ocean.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can't say I've written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.

Your calves, biceps and neck should always be the same size in inches. Mine are 16 inches - anything bigger or smaller and you know you're going wrong! Most men ignore working out the legs and glutes, not realising that they are the pillars of our core.

Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

There's no wrong or right with fitness. It's whatever you enjoy and whatever you can keep up and keep doing.

WWE was far more tougher than working for a film where you could take a shot and go and rest in the trailer, but for WWE, one had to exercise, eat well, fight, and even deal with injuries.

I'm on the road more than 250 days a year for the WWE. It can be challenging to find time to work out.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

I like to play paintball in my back yard.

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

You don't need a gym to develop real strength. Just get an empty keg of beer and fill it with sand or water and simply pick it up, carry it in your back yard, flip it, anything just to get moving for as little as 15 minutes.

When I'm not working, I'm down in North Carolina and we have a rather large yard, so I'm usually struggling with vines and pulling things down. I get plenty of exercise in the garden.

I work on my speed and strength every day, and I do a lot of work on my first five yards. For a footballer, that's really important.

Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.

Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.

Oh, yeah. I think it's very serious that if you don't take care of yourself, and you know, try to live and eat healthy, it will catch you down the line and sit you down or put you in a hospital. So I think it's good to learn good habits, and you know, learn the good things to eat to make you actually feel better.

Sometimes I'll watch a music video of a great performer like Beyonce and try to follow her choreography. Yeah, maybe I look ridiculous, but dancing gets your energy up a lot better than running on a treadmill or pedaling a stationary bike.

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.