Fitness quotes

Unleash your full potential with our collection of inspirational fitness quotes. Get motivated, stay active, and transform your body and mind with these powerful words of encouragement.

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

- Jamie Redknapp

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.

- William Graham Sumner

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.

- Philip Knight

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

- Alan Thicke

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

- Graeme Le Saux

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

- Sting

I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

- Grete Waitz

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.

- Daniel Inouye

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

- Jurgen Klinsmann

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

- Peter Shilton

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.

- Paula Abdul

In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.

- Grete Waitz

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

- Judy Johnson

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

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

- Martina Hingis

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.

- Gregor Mendel

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.

- Graeme Le Saux

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.

- Ann Oakley

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.

- Nigel Mansell

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.

- Kenneth H. Cooper

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

- Tipper Gore

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

- Paul Gascoigne

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.

- David Ginola

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

- Deborah Bull

Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.

- Cobi Jones

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.

- Alan Thicke

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

- Andre Maurois

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.

- Richard Gough

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.

- Richard Gough