Michelle Obama Quotes

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.

I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.

If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

I've always been into sports and being physical.

If I'm in Maui, I play soccer and tennis and go kite-surfing. I prefer doing a sport as opposed to going to a gym. I'm not big on gyms. When I did 'Rampart,' I lost 30 pounds because I felt it was better for the character. I worked out constantly, maybe twice a day, and minimized caloric intake.

I played sports growing up, and I worked out a lot. Then, when I moved back to L.A., I just fell off everything.

I grew up playing sports and being very active.

I've always been athletic my entire life and loved sports.

It's a big part of me still, as is being athletic - although these days I find myself playing tennis, hiking, and doing yoga and Pilates rather than swinging a bat.

I think whenever you get out and do something different, like mountain biking or surfing, it just makes you more aware of your body and balance. For me, I've always loved anything that involved sports, so I've always just tried different things.

I'm not really a sports girl anymore - I used to be a huge sports girl.

I had always been involved in athletics throughout my life.

I keep myself in shape. I love the game of basketball, and I really feel like it doesn't matter about your age.

I love the military, of course, but it wasn't my thing. Sports was my thing.

I like to stay active.

I really like playing football, but I have four kids and there are so many fun things to do.

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

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.

I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.

I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.