Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel. Jack LaLanne More Quotes by Jack LaLanne More Quotes From Jack LaLanne People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut? 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 coffeedogmorning 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 shortcutspay-the-pricebed If it tastes good, spit it out! Jack LaLanne spittasteifs I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out. Jack LaLanne guysportsboys Figure out what's good for you, then create a liking for it. You've got to work at living. Jack LaLanne figures 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 girlself-esteemmean 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. Jack LaLanne girlathleteschool If man makes it, I don't eat it! Jack LaLanne ifsmen The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub. Jack LaLanne beachhandsyears 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! Jack LaLanne tapeexercisesports Exercise to live. Never live to exercise. Jack LaLanne exercisefitness Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Jack LaLanne focusenergyproblem 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 focuskeyssports I can't afford to die. It would wreck my image. Jack LaLanne wrecksdiesi-can I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites. Jack LaLanne turkeyschickenseggs Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again. Jack LaLanne health-and-fitnesshelp-mehelping Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. Jack LaLanne ice-creamaveragesports Billy Graham is for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now. Jack LaLanne here-and-nowhereafter 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 legspeoplemoving I say stick with Mother Nature as much as possible. Jack LaLanne mother-naturesticksmother
