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“My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.”

Ifs Knows Should Character Body Would Be Moving Careers Shapes Concerned Athlete Looking Good Getting In Shape

Author:Aidan Quinn

“Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.”

Thinking Long I Can Body Age Games Records Higher Pressure Athlete Fighter Recognition Japan Constantly Thinking

Author:Takeru Kobayashi

“A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.”

Mind Heart Body Spirit Attitude Teacher Scientist Workers Athlete Missionary Reconstruction

Author:Y. C. James Yen

“A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.”

Body Fighting Perfect Seeing Couple Sitting Athlete Aids Viruses Visualization

Author:Arthur Ashe

“By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.”

Mind Whole Body Effort Accepting Concepts Athlete Limitation Permanent Persistent Progression

Author:Emil Zatopek

“Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.”

Way Body Running School Mother Fall Sports Morning Sun Brother Spring Winter Athlete Breakfast Every Morning Brothers And Sisters Alabama

Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.”

Body Sports Harder Athlete Cells Panic

Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal thread, whether you're an athlete, a dancer, an actor or a singer. It's all about maintaining your body because that allows you to do what you do.”

Way Needs Body Certain Actors Universal Instruments Athlete Your Body Singers Dancer Thread Maintaining Maintenance

Author:Josh Peck

“I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.”

Ifs Looks I Can Body Age Wanted Bits Goes On Shapes And Love Athlete Scales Skinny

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.”

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?”

People Should Body Sex Paid Athlete Dancer Exception Touching Prostitution Laborers Professional Athlete Qualms Qualms About

Book:Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows

Source: Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows