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Quotes About Exercise

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
~ Gordon Ramsay
When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.
~ Gordon Ramsay
Nevertheless, some Southerners like James Monroe still had serious reservations about the compromise, believing that assumption would reduce "the necessity for State taxation" and thus would "undoubtedly leave the national government more at liberty to exercise its powers and increase the subjects on which it will act.
~ Gordon S. Wood
Badminton joke
~ Get smashed.
Long-continued practice is necessary to make any one a first-rate player at Battle-door and Shuttle-cock. As this game is an extremely noisy one, it ought never to be played near any one who is sick or happens to be subject to headaches. Like many other games, it is more agreeable when played in the open air.
~ Riddles and Rhymes, 1893
I keep trying to lose weight — but it keeps finding me!
~ Author Unknown
Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks.
~ Author Unknown
I'm into fitness — fitness donut into my mouth.
~ Internet meme
Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.
~ Author Unknown
I'm into fitness — fitness cupcake into my mouth.
~ Internet meme
15% gym, 85% diet. Abs are made in the kitchen, not the workout room.
~ Author Unknown
The truth is, that the craving for exercise is a part of healthy human nature.
~ E. Warre, 1884
Reflect first upon that great law of our nature, that exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
~ Hugh Blair (1718–1800)
I consider my refusal to go to the gym today as resistance training.
~ Author Unknown
Commit to be fit.
~ Author Unknown
While I was out running this morning I heard someone clapping, but it was just my thighs cheering me on.
~ Internet meme
The need for exercise is one of the numerous sensations which lead living beings to perform actions necessary for the preservation of life or of health.
~ Fernand Lagrange, 1889
Things seem to work out better all around when I'm working out.
~ Terri Guillemets
Moderate exercise is indispensable; exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
~ Socrates
Let exercise alternate with rest.
~ Pythagoras
There is no doubt that physical activity is the basis of efficient functioning of the human mechanism, both physical and mental.
~ Uttar Pradesh, 1885
A man may take as much exercise in walking a mile up and down stairs, as in ten on level ground.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He who has a weak constitution becomes stronger by manual exercise than a robust man without it.
~ Xenophon
Exercise is essential to the health of the whole body; it increases the circulation and the power of breathing, and stimulates every part of the body to a good healthy growth.
~ Winfred E. Baldwin, 1896