Quotes About Health

When I eat better, I perform better.

I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.

I try to think of food like fuel. I don't look at calories; I just look at ingredients. If my body were an engine, what would make it run? What would make it perform at its highest level?

I think fitness and performance levels are the right indicators to determine if it's the time to leave the scene.

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the physical and mental health of the performer.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

Nothing beats a jog, and perhaps a push-up or two, by the ocean on a beautiful day.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

I've been underweight my entire life but not so much that I didn't get my period.

Nobody should be working 18 hours a day for a whole year or any period of time.

Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.

I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too, for a while.

I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

I've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do.

My back is permanently messed up.

Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

Many inherited disorders can perpetuate poverty by leading to disabilities that disrupt people's ability to work. In turn, someone's capacity to secure an effective new cure for these diseases can mean the difference between a life led productively, or one plagued by infirmity.

I tried chemo, but chemo and I didn't agree, so we didn't persist.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.