There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
In order to trust your body as a guide, the first step is to begin to understand it.
I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.
As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.
I was a little bit of a precocious kid, in the sense I loved reading, and I loved health and - my dad being a doctor - I really wanted to learn more about how the body worked.
Just knowing how the body works and being athletic means it's easier to stay athletic while working a different job.
My body knows my limits.
We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.
Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.
I know my body. I know my mind. I know what I can do.
I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.
I have just gotten to know my body well enough now to know when I need a little bit of help.
It's really hard to be consistent, and you have to know your body and know yourself.
Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body - as that can make all the difference in the world.
You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.
It's important as an athlete to know your body and how things affect it.
I know my body well. I know the right foods to eat.
You know how people are becoming sexually active way too early because they think it's going to be like it is in the movies. And people are not aware of their bodies in a certain way, because they are afraid to see themselves for who they are because they want to see themselves in someone else's shoes or whatever.
Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
You get better at sex when you know your own body. How are you going to expect a man to know your body when you don't know what pleases you?
Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.
I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues.
You can't fit your clothes well and look your best if you don't know what you're working with.
