H. G. Wells Quotes

I just played football from an early age and didn't get involved in any other sports. We had tennis, cycling, ice skating - I'd like to have skated more, because it's so physical. Ten minutes on the ice and you really feel it in your back.

Even something light, such as walking, jogging, cycling or swimming, and staying away from junk food is good enough to keep you healthy.

I like to keep fit, and when not gardening or singing solo or in a choir, I cycle, play tennis, swim, dance, and practise yoga.

I started teaching spinning early when it was first happening in the '90s. I love the mind-body connection of spinning.

If you don't want to hit the gym, go cycling or skipping.

I bike everywhere. It's a good workout, and it's so much fun.

The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.

I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I love being physical. It makes me feel like I sickly love the pain of it.

If only opening a Vitamin Water could be classified as working out.

Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.

When I'm speaking in front of 15 and 20,000 people and I'm up there using a lot of motion, I guess in it's own way, it's a pretty healthy act. I really enjoy doing it. A lot of times these rooms are very hot, like saunas, and I guess that is a form of exercise and, you know?

All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

I like the physical challenge. It's fun for me.

I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.

For 15 years of my life I smoked, I drank, I used to do drugs... but during that time, I never once thought I was going to die. But the second I set foot on a stairmaster -the second- I am sure my heart is gonna explode and blood is gonna spray out of my nose.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

Running is always an exercise in humility.

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.