Physical Fitness Quotes - Page 3

• Energy is connected to physical fitness. One of the reasons I stayed at the top so long is that I was tremendously fit. At 36, I was fitter than most opponents ten years younger.

  Garry Kasparov

  Long, Energy, Fit

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of each individual citizen to make full and fruitful use of his capacities.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fitness, Opportunity, America

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• Never give up! Never give up! Physical fitness is of paramount importance. There is no age limit when we live in the heart and when we try to be of prayerful and soulful service to God in the heart of humanity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Giving Up, Heart, Humanity

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• Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Practice, Would Be

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• As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.

  Joe Rogan

  Yoga, Long, Way

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• Critics have noted Schwarzenegger's only previous government experience was serving under President Bush senior as Chairman of the Council of Physical Fitness, a largely symbolic office, where Schwarzenegger's only responsibility was doing hundreds of jumping jacks he was going to do anyway.

  Jon Stewart

  Senior, Responsibility, Jumping

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• I think the most challenging aspect was keeping up the degree of physical fitness you need while filming a major leading role in a primetime U.S. series. You have very little time to sleep and eat, let alone train.

  Dustin Clare

  Sleep, Thinking, Challenges

  "Dustin Clare Interview SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 23, 2011.

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• Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.

  Steve Allen

  Exercise, Dieting, Fit

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• Civilization impairs physical fitness.

  Joseph Pilates

  Civilization, Pilates

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, Order, Knives

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• There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

  John F. Kennedy

  Basketball, Children, School

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.309, Best Books on

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• As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.

  Lee Haney

  Sports, Fitness, Father

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• I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer - that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God.

  Jack LaLanne

  Kids, Thank God, Way

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Talking, Parent

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.17, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Doubt, Shadow, Trying

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• In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy

  Norbert Wiener

  Men, Important, He Man

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.154, Da Capo Press

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• Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Taken, Exercise, Men

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness

  Mike England

  Soccer, Fit, Wells

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• Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

  Jane Fonda

  Three, Capacity, Stools

  "Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her In Origin Magazine Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Challenges, Trying, Boards

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• For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

  Lance Armstrong

  Exercise, Lifestyle Choices, People

  "Lance Armstrong In 2012: On Exercise, Diet And Why He Won't Go Into Politics". Interview with Rebecca Zamon, www.huffingtonpost.ca. March 28, 2012.

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