An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes.  An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.  ~David Waltersin Esquire qtd in rdqq

I am pushing sixty.  That is enough exercise for me.  ~Mark Twain, attributed in James Munson, The Sayings of Mark Twain, 1992; CDC

If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise.  ~Author Unknown

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.  ~Plato, quoted in Charles A. Bucher, Foundations of Physical Education, 1964; CDC

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.  ~Edward Stanley

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.  ~Phyllis DillerCDC

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.  ~Marcus Tullius CiceroClV

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.  ~A.A. Milne

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.  ~Christiaan BarnardCUL

The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, "If we’re going to charge $10 an hour, we can’t call it jumping up and down."  ~Rita Rudner

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.  ~Carol Welch

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught,
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.
~John Dryden, ‘Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton’; CDC

Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.  ~Cher

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out.  ~Norman MailerCUL

I really don’t think I need buns of steel.  I’d be happy with buns of cinnamon.  ~Ellen DeGeneresWL

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.  ~Thomas de QuinceyCDC