Top 200 Fitness Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “To be the best you have to work overtime.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

52. “Greatness is earned, not given.”

— J. J. Watt

53. “Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.”

— Lance Armstrong

54. “If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.”

— Emil Zatopek

55. “The difference between a winner and a loser – they both failed, but the winner gets back up and does it again and again until it goes his way.”

— Greg Plitt

56. “Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.”

— Robin S. Sharma

57. “Transformation isn’t a future event, it’s a present day activity.”

— Jillian Michaels

58. “I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

59. “Being weak is a choice, so is being strong.”

— Frank Zane

60. “Change happens through movement and movement heals.”

— Joseph Pilates

61. “Strength is the product of struggle; you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.”

— Henry Rollins

62. “If you don’t like something, don’t do it. But don’t forget this: NO PAIN, NO GAIN.”

— Serge Nubret

63. “It’s early in the morning and your competition is still sleeping.”

— Greg Plitt

64. “If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.”

— Georges St-Pierre

65. “The groundwork of all happiness is health.”

— Leigh Hunt

66. “If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.”

— John Bingham

67. “I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds”

— Henry Rollins

68. “I run 50-70 miles a week and lift five or six days. It’s my time. ”

— Casey Neistat

69. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

70. “Walking is a man’s best medicine.”

— Hippocrates

71. “Every single day must be excellent. You’ve got to give it all you’ve got!”

— Eric Thomas

72. “The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.”

— Erin Gray

73. “Don’t workout because you think you ‘need’ to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention.”

— Demi Lovato

74. “To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

75. “Run hard, be strong, think big!”

— Percy Cerutty

76. “I never back down and I never quit!”

— John Cena

77. “There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.”

— Robert Cheeke

78. “Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.”

— Eddy Merckx

79. “Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.”

— Henry Rollins

80. “It’s not about the shoes, it’s what you do in them.”

— Michael Jordan

81. “On my worst day, I'll train for two hours. I don't have hobbies.”

— Nate Diaz

82. “If you quit once, it becomes a habit. Never quit.”

— Michael Jordan

83. “Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.”

— Greg Plitt

84. “Take care of yourself. Eat well, rest, train hard and smart, make time to think and breathe. Be intentional with your time.”

— Kristin Armstrong

85. “Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. ”

— Oprah Winfrey

86. “I’m doing this for me.”

— Jessica Mathews

87. “I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

88. “The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.”

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

89. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

— Albert Einstein

90. “A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.”

— Steve Prefontaine

91. “There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”

— Pelé

92. “Rest at the end, not in the middle.”

— Kobe Bryant

93. “The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.”

— Joseph Pilates

94. “You can have results or excuses. Not both.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

95. “When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

96. “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”

— John F. Kennedy

97. “Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.”

— Ellen G. White

98. “Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.”

— Dwayne Johnson

99. “It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.”

— Socrates

100. “Never quit. Never give up.”

— Gabby Douglas