Exercise Quotations

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If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

- Joey Adams

Unknown Author

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Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

- Unknown Author

Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first.

- Unknown Author

To a runner, a side stich is like a car alarm. It signifies something is wrong, but you ignore it until it goes away.

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The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!

- Unknown Author

Christian Barnard

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If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

- Christian Barnard

Erma Bombeck

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The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

- Erma Bombeck

Jimmy Carter

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Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

- Jimmy Carter

Ellen DeGeneres

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I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

- Ellen DeGeneres

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

- Ellen DeGeneres

Phyllis Diller

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My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

- Phyllis Diller

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

Abe Lemons

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I don't jog. If I die I want to be sick.

- Abe Lemons

Norman Mailer

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Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

- Norman Mailer

Plato

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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.

- Plato

Thomas de Quincey

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

- Thomas de Quincey

Mike Royko

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It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

- Mike Royko

Rita Rudner

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I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.

- Rita Rudner

Charles M. Schulz

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Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

- Charles M. Schulz

George Sheehan

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The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

- George Sheehan

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.

- George Sheehan

Mark Twain

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I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

- Mark Twain

I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

- Mark Twain