“I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.”

“I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.”

“My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.”

“I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.”

“Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.”

“I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.”

“Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.”

“I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.”

“I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.”

“I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.”

“I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.”

“No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.”

“Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.”

“Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!”

“In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.”

“One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.”

“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.”

“Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.”

“You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.”

“Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.”

“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”