Jack LaLanne Quotes
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Those who begin to exercise regularly and replace white flour, sugar and devitalized foods with live, organic natural foods begin to feel better immediately. Exercise is king, nutrition is queen -- put them together and you've got a kingdom.
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I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.
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Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.
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On one of my birthdays I did 1,000 chin-ups and 1,000 push-ups. For my 70th birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it, my feet and hands tied-my hands were in handcuffs, my feet were tied together-and I towed these boats a mile-and-a-half in Long Beach Harbor. For my 93rd birthday I'm going to tow my wife across the bathtub.
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Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
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Living is like training for an athletic event. You have to have goals and challenges; you need to exercise and eat right.
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If you can't afford a half hour three or four times a week taking care of the most priceless possession, your body, you've got to be sick. You're stupid.
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How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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If man made it, don't eat it.
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Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.
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You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
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You put junk in, junk comes out. You put good in, good comes out.
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The food you eat today is walking and talking tomorrow.
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Billy Graham is for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now.
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How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday.Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I'm going to be inferior tomorrow, it's that simple.
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Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.
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If man makes it, I don't eat it!
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Your muscles know nothing. It's your brain. Exercise is something you've got to do the rest of your life. It's a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You've got to work at it.
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Never get satisfied. The minute you stop trying, you go downhill.
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I've always liked fast cars and slow women.
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If you want to change somebody, don't preach to him. Set an example and shut up.
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Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right? Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline. It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.
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I was the worst, most sickly kid of all - 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.
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My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.
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I say stick with Mother Nature as much as possible.
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Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.
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What the hell do doctors know about exercise? Most of them know zero. You gotta push elderly people to failure like anybody else. Then the body responds.
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Jack LaLanne
- Born: September 26, 1914
- Died: January 23, 2011
- Occupation: Television Show Host
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