"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is."
— Ellen DeGeneres

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"My muscles informed me they did not want to go through any more exercise today. So I suggest that maybe he should let me off this time.

He laughed, and I'm pretty sure it was at me...not with me.
"Why is that funny?"
"Oh," he said, his smile dropping.
"You were serious."
"Of course I was! Look, I've technically been awake for two days. Why do we have to start this training now? Let me go to bed."I whined. 'It's just one hour."

"How do you feel right now?"
"I hurt like hell."
"You'll feel wrose tomorrow."
"So?"
"So, better get a jump onm it while you still feel...not as bad."
"What kind of logic is that?" I retotred."
— Richelle Mead : Vampire Academy 1

"I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum"
— Janet Evanovich (Two for the Dough)

"If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy."
— Scott Adams

"Sure, firm abs is on my list of goals. It's right up there with "bionic legs" and "extra head.""
— Tina Neidlein

"Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."
— Andrew Solomon (The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression)

""You're getting into some kind of shape, cop."
"Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."
Rhage fired a towel at the male. "Just pointing out your beer gut's gone."
"It was a Scotch pot. And I don't miss it.""
— J.R. Ward (Lover Eternal)

"Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think."
— Oliver Van DeMille (A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century)

"Wii Sports: All the frustration of real sports with out the physical exercise."
— Felix Harneis

"I don't mind exercise but it's a private activity. Joggers should run in a wheel - like hamsters - because I don't want to look at them. And I really hate people who go on an airplane in jogging outfits. That's a major offense today, even bigger than Spandex bicycle pants. You see eighty-year-old women coming on the plane in jogging outfits for comfort. Well my comfort - my mental comfort - is completely ruined when I see them coming. You're on an airplane, not in your bedroom, so please! And I really hate walkathons: blocking traffic, people patting themselves on the back. The whole attitude offends me. They have this smug look on their faces as they hold you up in traffic so that they can give two cents to some charity.
"
— John Waters

"I like running...I just don't like the part where I get tired."
— Random Person Living in the World

"...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion."
— Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust: A History of Walking)

"It was generally held knowledge among the people who lived on Whitward Street that the eldest of the three Miss Lockwells had a peculiar habit of reading while walking.

So often was she observed engaged in this activity that, whie the practice was unusual--and therefore not altogether admirable--people had become accustomed to it. On almost any fine day she might be seen striding past the brick houses that stood along the street as upright as magistrates, a volume in her hands and her attention absorbed by the pages before her. No one bothered to wave or call out in greeting as she passed; they had learned long ago there was no point in it when she had a book with her.

And Miss Lockwell always had SOME book about her, be it small or large or thin or fat, with gilt-edged pages or a cracked leather cover or leatters writ in gold down the spine. When they saw her coming, people stepped out of her path. Or, if the charitable thought occurred, positioned themselves in front of loose cobbles, lampposts, or other hazarads so she would be forced to go around them, which she did without breaking her stride. Or taking her eyes off her book."
— Galen Beckett

"I like running...I just don't like the part where I get tired."
— Random Person Living in the World