Jack LaLanne Quotes
I never think of my age, never. I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I'm just me.
Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Together, you’ve got a kingdom. If you have a Corvette, you don’t put water in the tank. The human machine deserves the same treatment.
You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!
If you take steroids, you have to pay the price. They can kill you; there are no shortcuts. It's like going to bed with a rattlesnake, it's got to get you.
My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.
Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window.
It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.
The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.
Figure out what's good for you, then create a liking for it. You've got to work at living.
Exercise is your king, and nutrition is your queen. Together they create your fitness kingdom.
The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be a little groggy, a little grumpy.
You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can't normally do otherwise.
There are so many health food nuts out there that eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible.
They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 year old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound or a pound or two pounds. It will still do something.
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.
I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".
If you lose a couple of inches off your stomach, your business down there will look a lot longer.
My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.
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.
That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.
My wife is my protector. Without her, I'm nothing. She wants to please me, and I want to please her. We've been together over 53 years.
I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in this big sea of iniquity and negativity.
