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"It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise."

"I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that."

"Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls."

"The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more."

"Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse."

"The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions."
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"I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems."

"According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September."

"Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent."

"Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55."

"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."

"Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging."
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