Top 200 Fitness Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Weakness leaves; pride comes in. Confidence grows. A successful life ensues.”

— Greg Plitt

152. “I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”

— Jonas Salk

153. “Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.”

— Moshe Feldenkrais

154. “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”

— Paul Dudley White

155. “I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it.”

— Richard Branson

156. “If you work hard, it will pay off in the end.”

— Lindsey Vonn

157. “Get comfortable being uncomfortable, that’s how you break the plateau and reach the next level.”

— Chalene Johnson

158. “He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”

— Thomas Carlyle

159. “The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy. It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.”

— Jacqueline Gareau

160. “The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”

— Steve Young

161. “The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

162. “Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.”

— Plutarch

163. “My workout is my meditation.”

— Kyle MacLachlan

164. “I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.”

— Michael Jordan

165. “Above all, learn to breathe correctly.”

— Joseph Pilates

166. “A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”

— A. A. Milne

167. “Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn’t paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows – they leap in like sugary ninjas.”

— Charles Dickens

168. “I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

169. “Breathing is the first act of life and the last. Our very life depends on it. Since we cannot live without breathing it is tragically deplorable to contemplate the millions and millions who have never mastered the art of correct breathing.”

— Joseph Pilates

170. “All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.”

— Kathrine Switzer

171. “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”

— Thomas A. Edison

172. “Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.”

— Marquis de Sade

173. “I really don’t think I need buns of steel. I’d be happy with buns of cinnamon.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

174. “There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.”

— Josh Billings

175. “Don’t make excuses, just get it done!”

— Suzanne Yoculan

176. “Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.”

— Charles M. Schulz

177. “If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.”

— Pep Guardiola

178. “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

— Mark Twain

179. “Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.”

— Dean Karnazes

180. “We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.”

— John F. Kennedy

181. “I can endure more pain than anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.”

— Steve Prefontaine

182. “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”

— Hippocrates

183. “Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.”

— Hippocrates

184. “Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”

— Elie Wiesel

185. “Dedication, hard work all the time, and belief.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

186. “Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.”

— Michael Phelps

187. “I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.”

— Michael Phelps

188. “Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.”

— K. Pattabhi Jois

189. “If you want to be a warrior, you have to train.”

— Denzel Washington

190. “See it, believe it, achieve it.”

— Lori-Ann Muenzer

191. “Anything is possible as long as you want it, you work for it. Doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks, the only person that can really put pressure on you is yourself.”

— Michael Phelps

192. “Today begins, tomorrow continues, and it never ends until you reach your goal.”

— Greg Plitt

193. “Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you are driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed.”

— David Goggins

194. “The support gets me to the gym but the doubt keeps me there.”

— Conor McGregor

195. “You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

196. “If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play well. If you play well, they pay well.”

— Deion Sanders

197. “Mental toughness and resilience fade if they aren’t used consistently. I say it all the time: you are either getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.”

— David Goggins

198. “Don’t try to rush progress. Remember – a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.”

— Kara Goucher

199. “You never run alone. You run out with problems, you run back with solutions.”

— Paulius Jačionis

200. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

— Tim Notke