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Quotes About Fitness

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.
~ Franklin P. Jones
naturalist and anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin asked in 1902: "Who are the fittest: those who are continually at war with each other, or those who support one another?
~ Frans de Waal
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
~ Fred Perry
The Central Nervous System is like a cup of tea that you must never let overflow." -Charlie Francis, Sprint Coach Every stressor, whether it be personal problems, internal training, weight training, or lack of sleep, adds tea (in this case, fatigue) to your cup. If the cup of tea (fatigue) does not overflow but is adequately stressed, supercompensation (fitness) takes place.
~ Frederick C. Hatfield
Fitness = workout + recovery
~ Friel Joe
Don't prioritize wealth over health, the two go hand in hand.
~ Branden Condy
Fitness is the only therapy you need.
~ Branden Condy
Healthy habits lead to a healthier life, and a healthier life leads to success.
~ Branden Condy
Anything that terrible had to be healthy.
~ Brandon Mull
Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning.
~ Brandon Routh
I've never been in a good place without working out and paying attention to my spiritual life. When
~ Brene Brown
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Warm your body by healthful exercise, not by cowering over a stove.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.
~ Herbert A. Simon
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
~ Herbert Spencer
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. { The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles Darwin , though he discussed Spencer's 'excellent expression' in a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace (Jul 1866) .}
~ Herbert Spencer
Consumptive patients, with lungs incompetent to perform the duties of lungs, people with defective hearts that break down under excitement of the circulation, people with any constitutional flaw preventing the due fulfillment of the conditions of life are continually dying out and leaving behind those fit for the climate, food, and habits to which they are born....And thus is the race kept free from vitiation.
~ Herbert Spencer
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
~ Herbert Spencer
In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.
~ Mark Spitz
Obviously fitness matters and at a certain age batsmen get the knack, batsmen get an idea how to get runs and I think he got the idea about 2-3 years ago how to get runs, what sort of shots to play and reading the situation.
~ Wasim Akram
A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.
~ Joan Van Ark
My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years.
~ Mario Lemieux
I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
~ Rachel Boston
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
~ Jack LaLanne