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The 85 best phrases about sports and physical exercise

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There is no doubt that both physical exercise and sport contribute many benefits for our health, because they help us not only to maintain the proper functioning of our internal system, but also provide us with an ideal figure. Being thus very consistent synonyms for ‘healthy lifestyle’, it is very necessary to have respect for these activities, as well as admiration and motivation to practice them.

Great personalities of history, including the most reputable athletes, have made powerful reflections on it. With that in mind, we have compiled the best phrases about sports and physical exercise, where you can learn about the benefits that we mention so much.

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Famous quotes to reflect on exercise and sport

With these phrases we hope you find an extra motivation to enter the world of fitness.

1. Always do your best. What you sow today will bear fruit tomorrow. (Og Mandino)

Exercise can be tedious, but the positive results on your body are undeniable.

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2. The training does not deal with an object, but with the human spirit and human emotions. (Bruce Lee)

To make a workout work, it is important to maintain a good attitude.

Bruce Lee

3. To be successful, we must first believe that we can. (Nikos Kazantzakis)

Again, positive attitude is everything in physical activities.

4. Exercise should be understood as an attribute of the heart. (Gene Tunney)

More than benefiting aesthetics, we must see exercise as a training for health.

5. Those who think that they do not have time for physical exercise, sooner or later will find time for illness. (Edward Stanley)

A reality that will come sooner or later.

6. You have to expect things from yourself before you can do them. (Bo Jackson)

In order to move forward, we must trust what we can do.

7. The difference between the impossible and the possible depends on the will of a man. (Tommy Lasorda)

If you have the will, the change will come of itself.

8. You have to do something honorable and courageous in your life if you want to live with yourself. (Larry Brown)

Exercise allows us to live fully, since it gives us a longer life time.

9. I am a very positive thinker and I think that is what has helped me in the most difficult moments. (Roger Federer)

Positivity has a great inspirational impact on people as it charges the body with energy.

10. Exercise is key to mental and physical health. (Nelson Mandela)

An indisputable phrase.

11. Once something is a passion, there is motivation. (Michael Schumacher)

Make your sport your passion and practicing it will not cause you boredom.

Michael Schumacher

12. Motivation is what gets you going, and habit is what keeps you going. (Jim Ryun)

More than physical effort, it is necessary to have motivation to continue.

13. Movement is a medicine to create physical, emotional and mental change. (Carol Welch)

Although it sounds almost mystical, physical activity helps us to be connected with our interior.

14. Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and physical exercise preserves it. (Plato)

Plato was a true believer in the benefits of exercise for the body.

15. You have to expect things from yourself before you can do them. (Michael Jordan)

For this reason it is always important, before each routine, to give ourselves encouragement.

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16. An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. You must work with hope in your heart and dreams in your head. (Emil Zatopek)

Great athletes, if they want to stay on top, must keep working hard like the first day.

17. The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness of winning. (Pele)

Go little by little, at your own pace, and you will see how you achieve a goal that seemed impossible.

18. What would have happened if I hadn't tried? (Valentino Rossi)

Try asking yourself this question instead of "what would have happened if I had tried?"

19. Champions keep playing until they get it right. (Billie Jean King)

Even fitness and sports professionals keep trying, they never stop.

20. There are epidemics of all kinds, the taste for sports is a health epidemic. (Jean Giraudoux)

The only epidemic worth enduring.

21. Health is what makes you feel like now is the best time of the year. (Franklin P. Adams)

Remember that without good health, everything gets complicated.

22. Knowing what is right doesn't mean much unless you do what is right. (Theodore Roosevelt)

It is useless if you know that you need a change in your physical health, if you do not start exercising.

23. Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat it as it could be, and it will become what it should be. (Jimmy Johnson)

Find people who are capable of motivating you.

24. Everything is practical. (Pele)

The way to get things done is by practicing.

25. Try and fail, but never fail to try. (Jared Leto)

Remember this is not a competition, find your rhythm and don't stop.

26. Just play, have fun, enjoy the game. (Michael Jordan)

Having fun is also a big part of exercise and sports.

Michael Jordan

27. You are not a loser until you stop trying. (Mike Ditka)

Only when you give up do you get to lose.

28. We don't stop exercising because we get older, we get older because we stop exercising. (Kenet Cooper)

A great phrase that is completely true.

29. Your strengths do not come from winning. Your challenges develop your strengths. When you overcome your difficulties and decide not to give up, that is strength. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Strengths also need to be worked on.

30. Winners never give up and those who give up never win. (Vince Lombardi)

If you want to win, you just have to keep trying.

31. If you are not confident, you will always find a way not to win. (Carl Lewis)

With mistrust, excuses come for not daring to do more.

32. Look in the mirror... that's your competitor.

Only you can cheer up or ruin you.

33. Glory is being happy. Glory is not winning here or there. It's enjoying practicing, enjoying every day, enjoying working hard, trying to be a better player than before. (Rafael Nadal)

A very beautiful vision of what glory is.

34. Accept challenges so you can feel the euphoria of victory. (George S. Patton)

The more you exercise, the more you want to win challenges.

35. The sport does not build character. It reveals it. (Heywood Broun)

Sport has the power to change lives.

36. If it weren't for the fact that the television and the refrigerator are far apart, some of us would not exercise at all. (Joey Adams)

Exercising also means changing your lifestyle.

37. It can be motivated by fear, it can be motivated by reward. But those two methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation. (Homer Rice)

The only worthwhile motivation is the one that makes you pursue happiness.

38. You cannot put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you go. (Michael Phelps)

Never limit yourself, because that will only make you stagnate.

39. To go far, it is important to go little by little, motivating yourself and gaining confidence.

Remember that it is not about a competition to win, but about finding your rhythm and following it.

40. Set your goals high, and don't stop until you get there. (Bo Jackson)

Going little by little does not imply that you should cut your dreams short.

41. Don't look at the clock, do what it does: keep going.

Don't worry about getting quick results, but about the slight changes in your health that you are achieving.

42. The body is our garden, the will is our gardener. (William Shakespeare)

Be the best gardener in your garden.

43. If exercise came in a bottle, everyone would have a great body.

Training is not easy, but it is always satisfying.

44. Do not measure yourself by what you have achieved, but by what you should have achieved with your ability. (John Wooden)

Each one must exercise according to his abilities, in this way it is possible to reinforce them.

45. If you don't lose, you can't enjoy the victories. (Rafael Nadal)

Failures are part of success.

46. Learn to perform small actions every day that, even imperceptibly, bring you a little closer to the results you want to achieve. (Giuseppe Fornaciari)

The secret to every exercise is to make small changes to make a big impact.

47. You cannot win until you learn to lose. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

There is no way to get ahead if you don't learn from mistakes.

48. The key to starting something is to stop talking and get down to business. (Walt Disney)

Stop planning the best time to exercise, just do it.

49. Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as such. (Astrid Alauda)

How do you treat your body?

50. The effort is not negotiated. (Diego Pablo Simeone)

To improve it is necessary to make an effort.

51. The pain is temporary. It may last a minute or an hour or a day or a year, but over time it will diminish and something else will take its place. However, if I quit, that will last forever. (Lance Armstrong)

Practicing any physical activity will bring pain, but it will only be momentary.

52. Good health and good judgment are two of life's greatest blessings. (Publilio Siro)

Blessings that we must cherish.

53. If you constantly think that you can fail, you will end up failing.

You have to change your mindset in order to get the results you want.

54. You cannot win the person who never gives up. (Babe Ruth)

If you consider yourself a winner, you will always win.

55. It should be a lifestyle, not a punishment. (Phoenix Carnival)

Never see exercise as a punishment, because you will not get good results.

56. You have to cultivate the vigor of the body, to preserve that of the spirit. (Luc de Clapiers)

The body and the spirit are united and if one is well, it is reflected in the other.

57. Happiness resides, first of all, in health. (George William Curtis)

If we are healthy, we can feel considerably better.

58. Don't ask what your teammates can do for you. Ask yourself what you can do for your teammates. (Magic Johnson)

Working as a team is the key to the success of great players.

59. I wake up in the morning looking for an adventure. (George Foreman)

This is a mantra with which we should wake up daily;

60. Adversity makes some men break; others break their limits. (William Arthur Ward)

There are two ways of looking at difficulties. How do you do it?

61. My strength is that I am more balanced and calm than most cyclists. (Miguel Indurain)

Find the difference because it can take you far.

62. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will get sick. (Hippocrates)

It is no coincidence that illnesses come from carelessness to physical activity.

63. Idleness and lack of occupation tend to be drawn towards evil. (Hippocrates)

Sometimes, comfort leads to a sedentary lifestyle and this, to health problems.

64. The more we do, the more we can do. (William Hazlitt)

You can always give more. Never think otherwise.

65. Keeping the body healthy is our duty. Otherwise, we will not be able to preserve our strong and clear mind. (Buddha)

Again we are reminded that the health of the body acts directly on us.

66. It is solitary exercise that supports the spirit and keeps the mind vigorous. (Marcus Aurelius)

Physical activity helps the mind by keeping it energized and constantly attentive.

67. It is not the will to win that matters, everyone has it. It is the will to prepare to win that matters. (Paul Bryant)

A big part of winning is preparing for it.

68. A winner is one who stands up when the rest cannot.

Getting up is already a triumph.

69. As long as we persevere and endure, we can get everything we want. (Mike Tyson)

Perseverance and endurance help us to become stronger.

70. Quality is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)

If you want to maintain a good quality of health, then create habits for it.

71. A healthy body is an enclosure for the soul. A sick one, a prison. (Francis Bacon)

The two polarities of the state of health.

72. The only excuse for not exercising is paralysis. (Moira Nordholt)

There are no valid excuses for not exercising.

73. It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you keep in constant motion. (Confucius)

The secret is not to stop.

74. There may be people who are more talented than you, but there are no excuses for not working harder. (Derek Jeter)

Conformity is what stops you from improving.

75. 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)

You may only find discomfort at first, but you will see that in time, the effort will be worth it.

76. If you have everything under control, you are not moving fast enough. (Mario Andretti)

Part of physical work is spontaneity, as you can enjoy it that way.

77. Every strike brings me closer to home run. (Babe Ruth)

Remember that failure should only push you to success.

78. Those who think they do not have time for exercise, sooner or later, will have to make time for the disease. (Edward Stanley)

You may not feel it now, but later the sedentary lifestyle will take its toll.

79. All great thoughts are conceived by walking. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Walking not only brings benefits to the body, but to the mind.

80. To preserve our health, physical exercise should be carried out weekly. (John F. Kennedy)

Let this be your greatest motivation.

81. Anything negative - pressure, challenges - is an opportunity to grow. (Kobe Bryant)

For every time you feel like you can't take it anymore, remember why you are doing it.

82. How to reach a goal? Slowly but surely. (Goethe)

Thus a goal is reached.

83. I can, therefore I exist. (Simone Weil)

You can always do it, it's just a matter of wanting to do it.

84. Health is the relationship between you and your body. (Terri Guillemets)

The best way to take care of the body is to keep it healthy.

85. Playing sports is fatigue without fatigue. (Gabriele D ’Annunzio)

Although fatigue burns, the more exercise we do, the less desire to stop we will have.

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