Quotes about exercise




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"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

Allen, Fred A. on exercise
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"I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast."

Ashford, Evelyn on exercise    Share

"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."

Bombeck, Erma on exercise    Share

"Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings."

Brodkey, Harold on exercise    Share

"Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle."

Cher on exercise    Share

"Use it or lose it."

Connors, Jimmy on exercise    Share

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"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise."

Depew, Chauncey on exercise    Share

"Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on exercise    Share

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it."

Ford, Henry on exercise
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"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."

Hippocrates on exercise    Share

"Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes."

Hutchins, Robert M. on exercise    Share

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."

Jefferson, Thomas on exercise
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"A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts."

Jerome, St. on exercise    Share

"The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon."

Jerrold, Douglas William on exercise    Share

"Exercise is labor without weariness."

Johnson, Samuel on exercise    Share

"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."

Kennedy, John F. on exercise    Share

"We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living."

Kennedy, John F. on exercise    Share

"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."

Leifer, Carol on exercise
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"I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick."

Lemons, Abe on exercise    Share

"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on exercise    Share

"A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul."

Mccord, David on exercise    Share

"Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it."

Paglia, Camille on exercise    Share

"Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once."

Paul, Jean on exercise    Share

"The physically fit can enjoy their vices."

Percival, Lord on exercise    Share

"Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed."

Schulz, Charles M. on exercise    Share

"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark on exercise
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"Exercise: you don't have time not to."

Unknown, Source on exercise    Share

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