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" A lot of fitness is about contractions - you're doing squats, or you're on a bike and your knees are bending but never stretching all the way, so your muscles get strengthened but look short and thick. "

Mary Helen Bowers

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" I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness. "

" Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. "

" At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization? "

" It definitely wasn't cool in junior high, when everyone else is trying out for cheerleading, to have a life consumed by ballet. "

" I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. "

" I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness. "

" When you're not experiencing your food, that's when it's harder to pay attention to when you're full, and that's what being satisfied really means. "

" Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise. "

" I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga. "

" As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time. "

" I'm quite into fitness, and I have a fantastic personal trainer who knows me, knows my body, knows when to push me, and knows when not to push me. She doesn't make me do 20 burpees in a row and instead focuses on strengthening my core, telling me we need to focus on making me into 'a tall giraffe'! "

" Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic. "

" The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. "

" I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments. "

" Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life. "

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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Life

" Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them. "

" We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform. "

" Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. "

" A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. "

Steven Wright

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" There's no feeling like performing. It's magical, it's so rewarding, and it just feeds this special little part of your soul. "

Mary Helen Bowers

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" The changes that your body goes through during pregnancy are so radical, I've really tried to embrace and celebrate my new body, and hopefully I can encourage other women to do the same. "

" Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease. "

" As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life. "

" I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great! "

" If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't overexpose myself; I give proper gaps whenever I can. I do not over spend myself, I keep myself busy in lot of activities. I really work hard; I work harder than others, by focussing on my fitness level and studying music. "

" I'm really into fitness, so my hobbies are yoga, Pilates, and working out. "

" I have a tremendous passion for fitness, I love challenges and I am a very driven guy. "

" Carrying a baby is such hard work, I've found that the stronger I am, the better I feel. "

" The fitness industry has long thrived off the well-intended coming through their doors and signing up with dreams of self-improvement, only to fade into their couches. Those who stick with it often feel like hamsters on treadmills. "

" There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too. "