Top 200 Fitness Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.”

— Haile Gebrselassie

102. “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

103. “I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.”

— Steve Prefontaine

104. “Wake up with a plan of action, go to bed with satisfaction.”

— Greg Plitt

105. “If you are the best, you must go that extra mile.”

— Conor McGregor

106. “I’ve been fit and I’ve been fat, and fit is better.”

— Susan Powter

107. “You don’t stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.”

— Christopher McDougall

108. “Good things come to those who hustle.”

— Chuck Noll

109. “Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

110. “Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.”

— Mark Rippetoe

111. “Your health and well being should be your number one priority, nothing else is more important.”

— Robert Cheeke

112. “I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.”

— Michael Phelps

113. “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”

— Jack Dempsey

114. “Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.”

— Jocko Willink

115. “If you put your mind to anything that you dream, you can achieve it.”

— Michael Phelps

116. “Effort is between you and you.”

— Ray Lewis

117. “A healthy mind breeds a healthy body and vice versa!”

— Zig Ziglar

118. “We do today what they won’t, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can’t.”

— Dwayne Johnson

119. “Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

120. “If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

121. “The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.”

— Ken Doherty

122. “The real workout begins when you want to stop.”

— Anonymous

123. “Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them.”

— Kyle Maynard

124. “An active person will remain healthy while a lazy one will become sick.”

— Maori Proverb

125. “Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

— Muhammad Ali

126. “Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.”

— John Wooden

127. “Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.”

— Hippocrates

128. “You never want to fail because you didn’t work hard enough.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

129. “Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done.”

— Jim Rohn

130. “Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

131. “It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

132. “Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do something, because you can!”

— Greg Plitt

133. “I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.”

— Muhammad Ali

134. “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.”

— Stephen R. Covey

135. “Unless you puke, faint or die, keep going.”

— Jillian Michaels

136. “The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

137. “It’s a lifestyle – train like there’s no finish line.”

— Anonymous

138. “The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.”

— Vince Lombardi

139. “I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.”

— Michael Jordan

140. “Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.”

— Julie Isphording

141. “If you mentally believe it will happen, your body is going to find a way to make it physically happen.”

— Greg Plitt

142. “Only the disciplined ones are free in life.”

— Eliud Kipchoge

143. “Don’t think about the start of the race, think about the ending.”

— Usain Bolt

144. “When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.”

— Haile Gebrselassie

145. “It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.”

— Joseph Pilates

146. “To be the best and stay there, sweat is necessary.”

— Ray Lewis

147. “I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”

— Michael Jordan

148. “I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.”

— Jesse Owens

149. “There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.”

— Vince Lombardi

150. “Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.”

— Bikram Choudhury