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Fitness Quotes


"This year, I feel strong. I'm looking forward to having my best season in the last few years."


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


"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."


"Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with."


"Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs."


"Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness."


"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."


"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."


"A month before the season, I don't order fries with my club sandwich."


"You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level."


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


"I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments."


"I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still."


"Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement."


"Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness."


"I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on."


"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."


"Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are."


"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."


"I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now."


"The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person."


"For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point."


"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities."


"My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful."


"I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast."


"I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences."


"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."


"They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less."


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


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


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


"I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath."


"Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General."
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