Famous Quotes About Exercise

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.

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.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

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.

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

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

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

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

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

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

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.

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