Fitness Quotes

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

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

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

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.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

You gotta have a body.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

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.