Richard Gere Quotes

I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.

I didn't have to work out before 35 but now I have to.

It's so easy to lose your fitness and so hard to gain it back.

As you get older it gets doubly hard to keep yourself fit and in shape.

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.

From middle age on, there's nothing more vital to your health and weight control than building lean muscle mass, and the only way that happens is with weight training and exercise.

I was just used to being in shape, and getting out of it was really difficult for me.

I just hate being out of shape.

I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start, as it's healthy.

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

What's important is to get into shape and then not to have to worry about it. I don't want to get on stage and not being able to do something. Not being physically fit doesn't work for me.

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.

I'm not overweight, but I'm not in shape at all. I do not work out.

Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.

I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.

I am not a man in decent shape.

When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.

I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

I actually stopped working out because I don't want to lose my jelly.

I walk every day, and I run and do all kinds of that.

It's important for me that I stay in shape, although each year it gets a little harder.

I work out every body part twice a week, and that is what helps me stay in shape.

Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like bad joints and man boobs!

I've always been in unbelievable shape.