According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.

Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.

Over the years, Ive covered 22,000 miles.

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.

A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.

I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.