Dan Buettner Quotes

You can exercise right through to your 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.

The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.

I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I have some good genes, but lately I've been feeling it. You know, after all these years it does catch up with you. But just for now.

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of trying to live longer.

As you get older, you either become proactive about staying in shape and taking care of yourself, or, you know, time has its effect on you.

I actually feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm in better shape than I was when I was 30.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am.

My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.

Exercise is the fountain of youth, I believe.

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

I've been trying to take more care of my body, especially as I've got older.

I am 40 years old, but I still feel fit.

I am more interested in health, quality of life, longevity and how training and nutrition affects that as you get older.

We have to stay healthy no matter how old we are.

Getting older doesn't worry me, what does is getting unfit.

If you're playing, or not playing, training is always good to keep you young.

I like to think I'm healthy. I exercise a lot.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

I think it's very important, even if you're not in organized sports, but just to be active, to be healthy.