
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'Muhammad Ali
These 12 quotes on fitness come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'Muhammad Ali

All life is yoga.Sri Aurobindo
All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise.Anne Bronte
Patience is a virtue but you will never ever accomplish anything if you don't exercise action over patience.Byron Pulsifer
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.Paavo Nurmi
Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life — for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.Laura Teresa Marquez
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.Epictetus
The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.Mark Twain
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which…Bertrand Russell
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great…David Rockefeller

Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency.Amartya Sen