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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
-Fred A. Allen
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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
-Susan B. Anthony
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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.
-Neil Armstrong
on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite
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I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
-Evelyn Ashford
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Go jogging? What, and get hit by a meteor?
-Robert Benchley
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The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
-Erma Bombeck
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Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.
-Harold Brodkey
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Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
-Cher
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Use it or lose it.
-Jimmy Connors
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I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
-Chauncey Depew
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When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
-John Donne
Letter, September, 1608
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
-Barbara Ehrenreich
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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.
-Henry Ford
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
-Hippocrates
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Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
-Thomas Jefferson
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
-St. Jerome
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The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
-Samuel Johnson
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
-Samuel Johnson
Rambler (London) no. 47. repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 3, eds. W.J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss (1969), August 28, 1750
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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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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.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-Carol Leifer
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
-Abe Lemons
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Books about Exercise
