1. “Eat right and you can’t go wrong.” – Jack LaLanne
2. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
3. “You see, you don’t get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.” – Jack LaLanne
4. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
5. “People feel so guilty about not exercising. Especially people over 50, who feel like they’ve gone a lifetime without taking care of themselves. Instead of aiming for perfection, you should try to celebrate the progress you’re making.” – Jack LaLanne
6. “It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.” – Jack LaLanne
7. “If it tastes good, spit it out!” – Jack LaLanne
8. “If you want to change somebody, don’t preach to him. Set an example and shut up.” – Jack LaLanne
9. “I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.” – Jack LaLanne
10. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
11. “Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.” – Jack LaLanne
12. “When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King” – Jack LaLanne
13. “Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?” – Jack LaLanne
14. “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!” – Jack LaLanne
15. “Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen – right?” – Jack LaLanne
16. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
17. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
18. “We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.” – Jack LaLanne
19. “People don’t die of old age, they die of neglect.” – Jack LaLanne
20. “The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges.” – Jack LaLanne
21. “All athletes would be better if they eat better. Junk in equals Junk out.” – Jack LaLanne
22. “I’d rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What’s the good of living if you can’t have the things that give a little enjoyment?” – Jack LaLanne
23. “I never think of my age, never – I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I’m just me.” – Jack LaLanne
24. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
25. “Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student’s life, know everything about him. Be interested.” – Jack LaLanne
26. “One of the reasons so many people fail is they get on this treadmill for an hour or an hour and a half. That’s totally unnecessary. If it’s cardiovascular, you don’t need more than 15 to 17 or 18 minutes if it’s vigorous.” – Jack LaLanne
27. “Living is like training for an athletic event. You have to have goals and challenges; you need to exercise and eat right.” – Jack LaLanne
28. “Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it’s never too late.” – Jack LaLanne
29. “Never get satisfied. The minute you stop trying, you go downhill.” – Jack LaLanne
30. “Everything in life that’s meaningful takes effort – takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves…help you.” – Jack LaLanne
31. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
32. “Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don’t exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray ‘Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.’” – Jack LaLanne
33. “Better to wear out than rust out.” – Jack LaLanne
34. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
35. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
36. “Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.” – Jack LaLanne
37. “Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That’s the key.” – Jack LaLanne
38. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
39. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
40. “Your waistline is your lifeline.” – Jack LaLanne
41. “The only way you can hurt your body is if you don’t use it.” – Jack LaLanne
42. “Never, ever get satisfied; keep the carrot in front of the horse.” – Jack LaLanne
43. “Be young. Keep yourself young by having a good, sporty car like a Corvette. It keeps you on your toes. It keeps you young. It keeps you thinking young. It keeps you thinking modern and good things. Corvette is a modern, modern automobile.” – Jack LaLanne
44. “The food you eat today is walking and talking tomorrow.” – Jack LaLanne
45. “Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke.” – Jack LaLanne
46. “It’s survival of the fittest. You can’t have everything perfect, that’s impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air and in the water, but the poor people who are sick, it really affects them more.” – Jack LaLanne
47. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
48. “The tape measure doesn’t lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime.” – Jack LaLanne
49. “Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.” – Jack LaLanne
50. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
51. “Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It’s what you’re doing now.” – Jack LaLanne
52. “I want to move well and comfortably, and enjoy the world around me.” – Jack LaLanne
53. “Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel.” – Jack LaLanne
54. “I was going to be a singer. If I hadn’t been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That’s from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer – that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God.” – Jack LaLanne
55. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
56. “I’ve always liked fast cars and slow women.” – Jack LaLanne
57. “You need to make good health a hobby.” – Jack LaLanne
58. “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.” – Jack LaLanne
59. “Jesus, when he was on Earth, he was out there helping people, right? Why did he perform those miracles? To call attention to his profession. Why do you think I do these incredible feats? To call attention to my profession!” – Jack LaLanne
60. “I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!” – Jack LaLanne
61. “Life is great when your in shape!” – Jack LaLanne
62. “I eat 6 or 7 raw vegetables every day, 4 or 5 pieces of fresh fruit. I eat egg whites each day. If I eat bread, it has to be whole wheat. I eat brown rice. I don’t eat between meals. I eat at 11 o’clock in the morning and 7 o’clock at night.” – Jack LaLanne
63. “If you don’t like Corvettes, you don’t like sex and money.” – Jack LaLanne
64. “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!” – Jack LaLanne
65. “I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That’s all I think about.” – Jack LaLanne
66. “The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.” – Jack LaLanne
67. “I think fat, out-of-shape people should be fined.” – Jack LaLanne
68. “My top priority in life is my workout. Regardless of what happens, I hit that gym. Even when I was in the hospital twice with serious knee operations: Right after I came out of anesthesia, there was a chin bar over my head and dumbbells. I worked out immediately.” – Jack LaLanne
69. “Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” – Jack LaLanne
70. “You can’t separate the mind and body. It’s impossible.” – Jack LaLanne
71. “Everything you do in life, I don’t care, good or bad – don’t blame God, don’t blame the devil, don’t blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.” – Jack LaLanne
72. “If man made it, don’t eat it.” – Jack LaLanne
73. “Forget about what you used to do. Don’t make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, “Oh the good old days” – the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.” – Jack LaLanne
74. “I’m a believer in routine. I like to see people work out at the same time each day.” – Jack LaLanne
75. “You’ve got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they’re the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.” – Jack LaLanne
76. “Develop a positive attitude. Think and picture how amazing you are going to be. Visualize it!” – Jack LaLanne
77. “As it’s often been said, the rest of your life is the best of your life. I’m reaching for your hand now to help you reassess your attitude on living and jump into the happiest, healthiest, most productive years you will ever have.” – Jack LaLanne
78. “Sometimes people – especially people over 40 – underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they’re not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, “I don’t want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is.”” – Jack LaLanne
79. “There are so many health food nuts out there that eat nothing but natural foods but they don’t exercise and they look terrible.” – Jack LaLanne
80. “Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It’s what you’re doing now.” – Jack LaLanne
81. “It’s difficult to change overnight but if you are persistent and take one step at a time you will see results!” – Jack LaLanne
82. “The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don’t try and change each other.” – Jack LaLanne
83. “Progress is made where progress is measured.” – Jack LaLanne