health priorities Quotes

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

I have seven kids. I want to watch my kids grow up. I want to participate in their activities. There's a lot I wanted to accomplish beyond football. It all starts with making sure my heart's healthy.

I try to, like, hang out with my family as much as possible. Hang out with the band, go hiking when I'm in the mood for that. Watch Netflix. It's really important for me; like, health comes before everything else.

There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.

We pay a lot of attention to our diet, but never to our mental health.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

I eat mostly vegan, try to get enough sleep. For me, that's really critical.

I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.

It was absolutely killing me that I've spent the first 25 years of my life tryin' to avoid bullets. That was always the main concern. Don't go out late. Don't go to any shady neighborhoods. Don't hang in bars alone. Why? Because you wanna avoid bullets. So once I get to 35 then I was like "Woo, okay. Made it." And now there's a new warning. Now it's like strokes; I gotta watch my health.

What's important for me is staying healthy.

People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably.

Having trees and a track to run on have become more important to me than living near cool restaurants.

We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies.

It's important to try and balance my own diet, my own health, my own lifestyle, with the needs of my family.

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

Between the kids, the jobs and everything, no matter what color you are, cardio is probably not on the top of your list.

What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.