Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
Rita Mae Brown – Sport
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
Thomas Jefferson – Health, Exercise, Walking
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.
George Bernard Shaw – Sport
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
Vincent Lombardi – Health
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Paul Dudley – Health
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.
Carol Welch – Health
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson – Health, Exercise
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner orlater have to find time for illness.
Edward Stanley – Health
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy – Health
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people’s accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Earl Warren – Sport, Newspaper
If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes upon the short end.
Julius Erving – Health
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Steve Garvey – Sport
Men forget everything; women remember everything. That’s why men need instant replays in sports. They’ve already forgotten what happened.
Rita Rudner – Sport
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin P. Adams – Health, Sport
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
