Quotes About Wellness

As a professional athlete, part of my job is to make sure I'm consuming high quality nutrients.

I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

Ultimately, the ability to inspire people to live healthier and happier lives is what excites me both personally and professionally.

On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training - they both go along. It keeps them fit.

When I hear my friend John Boehner say that we have the best health care in the world, I don't dispute it for a moment. If I were sick, this is the country I want to be in, with these doctors, these hospitals, and these medical professionals.

To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.

I'm pretty sure 'Nutty Professor' will happen to me at some point. And when it does, I will go to the gym.

I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

Everyone needs to move - if you're a pro athlete, a contortionist, a computer programmer, or just somebody who wants to play with their kids.

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

Farm to School programs bring healthy, nutritious foods to our school cafeterias, teach our students about the importance of agriculture, and help establish lifelong healthy habits for the next generation of Vermonters.

We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.

I think we need more community health programs and we need to develop programs that are low-cost.

For years, ever since I was a model, I would be asked about what I did for my skin. So extending my own brand to include skincare seems almost organic to my progression.

As long as you're having fun and being positive and progressive, I'm going to say you're living a Zumbao lifestyle.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.

Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

If I could do this until I was 60, I would. This is a great life. All I do is train, all I do is work out, and prolong my life by the training that I'm doing, the things I have to do as professional athlete.

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

Our big problem is that high-calorie, special-occasion foods like cakes, fried foods, etc. have become so cheap and easy that we eat them every day. Make them special again by cooking them yourself. You won't do it every day, I promise.

When I started working from home, I made a promise to myself to go out at least once a day.