Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

I've aged well because I've had to take care of myself.

The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

I'm trying to live until I'm at least 65 or 70, so I might as well try and stay healthy until at least that long.

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

I do Pilates because it's important for me to have a healthy back when I'm 70 so I'm not hunched over and in pain.

I've seen so many people - loved ones and colleagues - who jump from one diet to the next, one exercise regimen to the next. I was trying to figure out what were some of the basic things that each of us can build into a lifestyle for good, instead of bouncing from one thing to the next.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

I do Pilates because it's important for me to have a healthy back when I'm 70 so I'm not hunched over and in pain. That's more important to me than being thin.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

Try to think of working out and healthy eating as a lifestyle. Rather than go on a diet or try a crazy exercise routine, try making them something you do every day.

My own recipe for longevity includes considerable amounts of fruits and vegetables. An additional major responsibility for the maintenance of our bodies is regular exercise; at least 4 to 5 times a week.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

I row my boat on the river. I swim, ski, walk, lift weights, do yoga and Pilates. I don't want to be a weak, sick 90-year-old.

As you get older, you start trying to eat a little bit better, and just do a little better.

As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.

Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym.

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.. You are what you eat, you know. When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

I do try to watch it. I'm not saying you have to put yourself on a diet, because I hate the word "diet." But it's more of, like, having a balanced lifestyle makes me feel better. I try to do one to two days with no meat. I try to lessen my gluten. Those are things that I struggle with.

Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.