Top 40 Gabrielle Reece Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Stay calm and aggressive.”

— Gabrielle Reece

2. “The key is that I control my life; my life doesn’t control me.”

— Gabrielle Reece

3. “It’s sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don’t move it, we’re not going to feel great.”

— Gabrielle Reece

4. “Taking care of yourself is so important.”

— Gabrielle Reece

5. “I think any time people behave in a way that’s truly them, then they’ll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.”

— Gabrielle Reece

6. “I’m very open-minded.”

— Gabrielle Reece

7. “In Hawaii, if you’re invited to dinner, it’s assumed that the children are invited as well. On the islands, no one treats children like they’re not part of the conversation. People talk to children as people and include them in adventures and conversations.”

— Gabrielle Reece

8. “Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.”

— Gabrielle Reece

9. “I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.”

— Gabrielle Reece

10. “If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you’re not, you can feed off their energy.”

— Gabrielle Reece

11. “I guess I crave stability.”

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12. “Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don’t forget a thing. Move on...”

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13. “My motivation has always been health – eating healthy and taking care of myself.”

— Gabrielle Reece

14. “No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it’s foolish to expect the other person to do that.”

— Gabrielle Reece

15. “My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.”

— Gabrielle Reece

16. “Some women just fight to fight. I fight to win.”

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17. “My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I’m throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.”

— Gabrielle Reece

18. “I’m not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I’m a female athlete personality.”

— Gabrielle Reece

19. “Even if I’m gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.”

— Gabrielle Reece

20. “I take the choice out of exercise. It’s not an option.”

— Gabrielle Reece

21. “Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.”

— Gabrielle Reece

22. “Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.”

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23. “Work travel for me, which is – I hate to say it – more enjoyable now that I have kids.”

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24. “With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.”

— Gabrielle Reece

25. “Even though I take care of the mom stuff, I’ve maintained my own individuality with my own projects, and I think my girls see that I’m not just the mom or the wife.”

— Gabrielle Reece

26. “I’m a natural. That’s why I make the big bucks.”

— Gabrielle Reece

27. “If you don’t know one thing about Kid Rock it’s that he’s loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.”

— Gabrielle Reece

28. “I want to play until the end.”

— Gabrielle Reece

29. “I don’t want to be famous famous. I’m happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.”

— Gabrielle Reece

30. “I didn’t get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don’t want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.”

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31. “Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.”

— Gabrielle Reece

32. “Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.”

— Gabrielle Reece

33. “You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.”

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34. “Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!”

— Gabrielle Reece

35. “I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.”

— Gabrielle Reece

36. “We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we’re eating.”

— Gabrielle Reece

37. “I am a babe for a living.”

— Gabrielle Reece

38. “On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.”

— Gabrielle Reece

39. “Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life’s experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.”

— Gabrielle Reece

40. “I don’t have a life, I really don’t. I’m as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I’m a golf nun.”

— Gabrielle Reece

41. “I can’t sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.”

— Gabrielle Reece

42. “The one important rule I have with the kids is that when we go to a place, we eat what they eat. I’m not bringing food or going to waste time trying to find foods that I know they like. Eating is a part of travel.”

— Gabrielle Reece

43. “I’d like to go to Africa, away from water, away from what’s normal for us. When you put yourself in those places your life looks so far away. It makes a big imp.”

— Gabrielle Reece

44. “In some ways, I’m relieved that I didn’t have a son.”

— Gabrielle Reece

45. “I won’t say my nutrition is perfect. If I’m at a restaurant and there’s fresh pasta on the menu, I’m going to order it. At home, though, I avoid grains and do a lot of the cooking to control what our family eats.”

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46. “I really don’t have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.”

— Gabrielle Reece

47. “I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.”

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48. “I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I’ve done.”

— Gabrielle Reece