Fitness Quotations | Page 5

It's okay that the others are ahead of me here. It doesn't worry me. I really didn't try in this Vuelta. I only came to the Vuelta to recuperate my fitness and I leave here at about 80 percent fitness. If I was here at top fitness I might not have reached the peak at the world's. At Madrid, I want to be 110 percent fitness and I didn't want to peak too early.

It's not just about being on the golf course. It's fitness centers, hobbies and crafts, classes. It's really a chance to meet people.

It provided us with a solid week of training. During the season teams are often preparing on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for a Friday competition. During those weeks we really have to watch our volume of training. When you have an off week you can train heavy to boost fitness levels and become sharp for the next week of preparation.

It's all about fitness. I'm not interested in the result. I'm interested in seeing certain things. Mike Magee's been great. He's been great the whole preseason. I'm very pleased with him.

A stronger, more flexible body will tolerate a fall better. The underlying message is that snowboarding and skiing safety have to entail a lifestyle commitment. Maintaining a proper fitness level is essential and winter athletes need to incorporate it naturally into their fitness routines.

It was difficult to exclude him but we don't want to see another breakdown of our main bowler. His fitness level is still not up to the mark for taking the workload in the longer-version game.

It's just a testament to her level of fitness. She's just that fit.

It's kind of a unique experience to play against a bunch of professionals. It definitely helps you to see where you're at with your fitness and your technical skills, and it shows what you need to work on in the summer to get ready for next fall. It's a big game for us to go out there and play for someone who unfortunately passed away on the field during competition.

We were pleasantly surprised. We did a fitness test coming back, and we didn't lose anything physically. And you're always worried about a setback in terms of remembering sets, but they've looked good.

We had to give Michael Owen and Scott Parker fitness tests this morning.

We will assess his fitness before play and see what the situation is then.

We will be assessing his fitness - we certainly need him on board.

We want to give the members of Liberty Fitness all the tools they need to be successful in a healthy life style.

We just wanted to give him some match fitness.

It's going to be a golf school for about seven or eight months of the year. We're going to combine golf training with fitness. It's going to have my name on it, but the people that come here, they are going to be able to work with my swing coach and my fitness coach and once in a while I will make an appearance and play some golf as well.

It shows the fitness and tenacity of our team.

It's a very short season and I try and get them match fitness as soon as possible. I wish we could play at the same time of year as all the other schools so we could compete against the best of the best.

They're complete opposites, ... Keith is all about running. Garrett is a first-year runner working for fitness and runs on the junior varsity. Even though he runs 30 minutes for a 5K, he does race and takes pride in the fact that he does beat people.

They're complete opposites. Keith is all about running. Garrett is a first-year runner working for fitness and runs on the junior varsity. Even though he runs 30 minutes for a 5K, he does race and takes pride in the fact that he does beat people.

I feel I can play 80 minutes. I might lack a bit of match fitness, but a Test is a different arena and the adrenaline can get you through.

I am of course disappointed, but maybe I need a little practice in the finals of these big tournaments. This was my first Tier I final, and she was just too good for me today. She really played her best tennis, and I have to give her credit for playing a great tournament. I have been working very hard on my fitness and my game, and I hope to get another chance soon. I am very happy with my week and hope to continue my form next week in Zurich.

I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn't even think about my weight - but now I work hard at keeping healthy. Fortunately, my husband Richie is as much of a fitness buff as I am.

I decided to go back out to Los Angeles to become a certified Tae Bo Fitness Program instructor.

If I want to get back into England side I've got to get some wickets and prove my fitness and hopefully that's what I'm going to do this week and next week.

If every deputy took this physical fitness test as serious as Bob, no one would be failing. Bob is the department's fitness poster child.

For the moment, at least on the fitness side, I'm getting really close to peak. And on the tennis side, I just want to get better every day and I'm not thinking about that. I just want to enjoy it and hit some balls.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

If he turns up on Saturday and passes a fitness test, he'll play.

If he wants to do another fitness test two days out from the fifth Test, I'll kick his bum because it's distracting everyone.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

A woman's health is her capital.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.

Resting for me is fitness training.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

You gotta have a body.

The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively?

I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.

I'm a part of a team, and I'm no better or any worse than any single player on this team. That's the approach I've always had and will continue to have. It's not about me. It has never been all about me. If it had, this would have been a really lonely journey.

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.

It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.

The leadership and training received in this course will help to gradually bring Sailors into peak condition for passing the PFA. The Navy is moving from a fitness era to one of wellness. Sailors need to be both healthy and physically fit in order for the Navy to meet its mission objectives.

The legal question that is most central to the case is whether they have an obligation to pay John for his wages lost while he was suspended as they did an investigation into his fitness to perform his job duties.

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

The medical clearance was a relief, but I haven't cleared her yet as far as fitness levels go . . . I'll know a lot more tomorrow.

The match is not as easy as it looks like, ... My fitness is not that good these days. I'm so tired recently.

The match is not as easy as it looks like. My fitness is not that good these days. I'm so tired recently.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date - that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

I've been fit and I've been fat, and fit is better.

Staying healthy and consistent is paramount.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.

Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not...

Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.

Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

You are what you repeatedly do

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

Energy and persistence conquer all things.