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Fitness Quotes - Page 7

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

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

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, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.20, Penguin

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.50

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

"New Again: Janeane Garofalo". Interview with Phyllis Diller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2015.