Quotes About Fitness

I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

In Formula 1, you need a great level of endurance because the races are long, so you need a pretty good base endurance.

I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

I've always been athletic - did the 100 metres and 1500 m at school, cross-country races - and did well in them.

Racing is very physical.

Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.

With racing, there's not one thing you need to be really strong at, it's a combination. You need a good base of cardio, good core, good neck strength. I think core and neck are the most important, but it's certainly not my favourite. Neck training is pretty boring.

I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.

I wanted to put a really good kids' racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.

If you pick up a copy of 'A Better World,' you'll lose those last five pounds while saving a baby seal under a rainbow. I kid. It'll be ten pounds.

On clay, you know that you have much longer rallies, and you must run for maybe two or three hours.

I'm pretty consistently fit because I think it's an important part of my work, but I will ramp it up just because I have been enjoying myself a little bit too much.

My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.

I have always been into fitness but never into running, in fact, I used to despise it. I'd look at people that ran and think they were crazy.

I run every day now. I never ran before.

When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

I ran over 10 years without missing a day, averaging close to 15 miles. I loved being able to run a long distance and get that feeling of strength and exhilaration from being in good shape. There was a meditative quality about it. Almost effortlessness. That's a special feeling.

When you think about martial arts here in the states, kickboxing was here in the '70s, and it kind of ran its course. But I always felt there was a place in combat sports for kickboxing.

I love training - I train a lot - but for 140, it's worse. You have to run every day. I ran six miles in the morning, six miles at night and train MMA and other arts, too. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

I ran a 100-mile marathon, and I was powered by coconut water.

I run the most for every team that I play for. That's because I ran so much when I was younger.

I started jogging, jogging and jogging. I ran this weight off.

When I was 238 pounds, I ran a 4.38.