Fitness Quotes

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

~ Peggy Fleming

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

~ Tipper Gore

We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

~ Phil Knight

My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

~ Alan Thicke

When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could have an impact on the whole world, and even as a young boy I was passionate about fitness and sports.

~ Magnus Scheving

In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.

~ Mahesh Babu

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

~ Kim Kardashian

When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who'd eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, 'I'm famous. How can I be fat?' It was a slap. I decided to get fit.

~ Bipasha Basu

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

~ Marquis De Sade

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.

~ Dayananda Saraswati

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

~ Josh Duhamel

Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

~ Samantha Stosur

When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.

~ Cesar Millan

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

~ Alan Thicke

When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.

~ Bob Harper

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

~ Pink

I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then wouldn't have to age at the same rate that they would if they were not more active. In other words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important.

~ Raquel Welch

For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.

~ Rakul Preet Singh

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

~ Florence Griffith Joyner

My morning starts with some form of exercise, and I give two hours - from 5:30 to 7:30 A.M. - to my personal fitness.

~ Sushant Singh Rajput

To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

~ Cherie Lunghi

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Fitness starts at home. What you eat is what you will look, just as what you sow is what you reap. Eat good food: eat fruits, vegetables, healthy grains, and don't go for sweet and trite food.

~ Rakul Preet Singh

I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!

~ Candice Swanepoel

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

~ Denis Waitley

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

~ Franklin Pierce Adams

I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.

~ Ruben Studdard

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

~ Thomas Jefferson

The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

~ Lakshmi Mittal

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

~ Mike Ditka

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

~ Gene Tunney

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

~ Charles M. Schulz

Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

~ Vanessa Hudgens

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

~ Gordon Ramsay

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

~ Fred Perry

My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

~ Lois Capps

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.

~ Hank Stram

You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.

~ Martha Stewart