I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.
—Ellen DeGeneres
Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.
—Randy K. Milholland
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
—John Henry Newman
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat cheese… get up at dawn to run, break for a midmorning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.
—Barbara Ehrenreich
The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
—Joan Rivers
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
—Sir Richard Steele
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
—Buzz Aldrin
Nothing's better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.
—Aaron Douglas Trimble
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
—Anna Quindlen
Control's a funny thing. It comes and goes. Some days I had it, some days I didn't. It felt like every time I did something healthy, I had this in satiable need to counterbalance it by doing something unhealthy.
—Evan Esar
Worrying about gray hair when your weight's soaring out of control is like mowing your lawn while your house is on fire.
—James Rippe
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.
—John M. Capozzi
Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.
—Joseph Addison
Dig where the gold is—unless you just need some exercise.
—Marcus Valerius Martialis
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
—Oprah Winfrey