Quotes About Fitness

I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She's so positive.

We are not now concerned with perfection or excellence; we seek only for simple fitness and bare competency.

My health is very good.

No, Jack Ramsey didn't look like a spa person. He lifted weights. Tom couldn't imagine him in an aerobics class, much less wrapped in seaweed.

They need some form of exercise every day but it doesn't have to be at the same time, or for the same length of time, or for the same distance.

Americans did very little ski jumping until the television program "Wide World of Sports" began showing a promotional film snippet in which a ski jumper hurtles off the edge of the chute, completely out of control, with various important organs flying out of his body.... Fitness buffs saw this and realized that any activity with such great potential for being fatal must be very good for you, so the sport began to catch on.

Surprisingly, the second group of individuals who tend to be protein malnourished are elite athletes—especially women. Their protein demands are often exceedingly high because of their greater amounts of lean body mass and higher levels of physical activity. These hard-working athletes tend to consume more than enough calories, but they rarely eat adequate levels of protein.

One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.

The program for me, 'The Ultimate New York Body Plan,' is about realizing the best you and really loving the body you create.

It's amazing how filling my cup with empty calories can lead to filling out the rear of my jeans.

There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.

I just try to stay fit. That's important - just to try to stay physically fit so you can go out there and play. You do need to be in reasonable shape.

I guess I have a reasonable physique for the sport I do.

Richard Hammond is a reasonably fit bloke who looks after himself. Me and Jeremy aren't.

I hate getting ill, it irritates me so I try to stay reasonably healthy.

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That would depress me.

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

Since I've gotten stronger, I can hold a guy off and get a rebound.

I'm trying to be in the best shape of my life. I'm getting stronger and more athletic to help rebound and to guard bigger opponents.