Leo Sayer Quotes

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive, his presidential ambitions would likely have been dashed.

Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

At 66, you're supposed to die or get hemorrhoids.

I don't know many people without pre-existing conditions.

My dad died of a massive heart attack when he was 59, as he didn't look after himself.

I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

I don't often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.

Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack - it's genetic; there's nothing I can do.

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.