“I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.” ThinkingWayMeanI CanPlaySportsChurchExerciseTherapyHockey Author:Michael Vartan
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” MotivationalPainLastsSportsLeadershipAttitudeForeverDesignFailureExerciseCancerQuittingTemporaryBicycleSuccess And FailureCyclingSuccess FailureFitness MotivationalMotivational WorkoutLearning From FailureNo FailureQuitterCyclistsQuitting Your JobMotivational ExercisePain Is TemporaryUnknown Motivational Book:Every Second Counts Source: Every Second Counts
“Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.” PeopleNeedsDifferentRunningSportsExerciseBenefitsDoctorsWeight Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.” PeopleIfsGivingTryingProblemFoundSportsHurtAbilityMagicCollegeHigherExerciseSolutionsPercentMedicineAverageSolveProductivityIntenseBotherSweatSuperheroPillsPuddles Author:Chalene Johnson
“Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.” IfsMayAsksSportsPleasureSeaExerciseRiversFishesInnocentBoatExcellentLakesFishingProtestSweetestRecreationDecrease Author:Thomas Bastard
“Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.” PeopleSportsExerciseMissionsHipsThings To Do Author:Bruce Jenner
“Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise.” MeanStillsFormSportsCuttingExerciseEatingFatsCholesterol Author:Mike Ditka
“Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it.” ThinkingWayWantSportsChallengesExerciseActiveHikingHobbiesLifelongRecreationWording Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis
“Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.” WellsChildrenPlayTodayTurnsSportsRoomsToo MuchTelevisionFootballWalkingExerciseOur ChildrenSeatsClimbingTurn-onStadiumsClimbing Up Author:John F. Kennedy
“Everyone should get more involved in exercising, not just for the health benefits, but for the social side too. There are so many different aspects in your life where sport can help. Even if you only go to a class at a local pool, you'll feel the benefits.” IfsFeelsShouldDifferentHelpingSocialSportsSidesClassInvolvedExerciseBenefitsAspectLocalsPoolHealth Benefits Author:Jazmin Carlin
“When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.” ThinkingNationsSportsRealizingBuildingExerciseFortuneFlyingForestsIndianHuntingFoxesFoundingSessionPortRailroadsForefathersChoppingBourbonSissySlow MotionBustleSedentaryTamingPolkaPrancingCoattailsFox Hunting Author:Robert Benchley
“I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.” MeanSocialSportsEnjoyLosesTakenExerciseWeightSakeParticipatingLose WeightFads Author:Dinah Shore
“All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.” IfsMenWayPersonsStillsStatesWould BeChristianFormHateSportsWhiteUnitedCommonUnited StatesNeededExerciseOfficeFemaleHorseGolfSlaveAthleteProfitRingsLikesCommon SenseGuiltyVarietyMy WayAccomplishedClimbsEndeavorExertionTriflingBathtubsDistasteFemale AthleteCalisthenics Author:H. L. Mencken
“I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.” SportsExerciseSoccerSnowboardingPhysical ExercisePlaying SoccerSports In General Author:Valentino Rossi
“Pilates is an awesome cross-training exercise for any sport because it focuses on functional movement.” SportsMovementExerciseTrainingCrossesPilates Author:Natalie Coughlin
“Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldMindFirstsWellsKindReasonThreeIndividualSportsHoursChanceFieldsExerciseBirdShould HaveBallsGolfShootingFishingWhere You AreOne TimeBeneficialFunny ThingsTrout Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while.” WorldI CanBodyBigsSportsIdentityGrewExerciseGrew UpEverydayBlockPlaying Sports Author:Erin Heatherton