Aly Raisman Quotes

I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

I don't believe I am hot. But I think if you keep your body in shape, work out and look after yourself, it helps.

When you are lonely, you get desperate to find a companion. My advice is instead of seeking Mr Right, use the time to hone your talents or workout at a gym. You may just meet someone special along the way.

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

When you're in shape, you don't have to walk up to somebody and say, 'Yo, I love myself.' You look like you care for yourself.

I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.

Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you're working out, you're going to feel good.

I don't really work out that much. I don't go to the gym.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I'm eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I go to the gym regularly, not just for the way I look but because it makes me less cranky, too.

When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who'd eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, 'I'm famous. How can I be fat?' It was a slap. I decided to get fit.

The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.

If my shirt's off all the time on national TV, with 20 million people watching, I want to look my best.

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be.

I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.

My approach to training changed dramatically throughout my experience as one of the trainers on 'The Biggest Loser.' Getting to know each person was an important reminder that to get the body physically fit, you must first get mentally and emotionally 'fit.'

I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.