Getting In Shape Quotes

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

You can’t enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I’m playing a character who’s concerned about his body – an athlete, say – I’ll get in shape. If I’m playing a character who doesn’t or wouldn’t, I don’t. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.

I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it’s grueling – all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That’s when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease – a change in your body.

On Valentine’s Day, couples in Calgary can celebrate their love for each other with couples’ nude yoga – great way to get in shape and see a side of your partner you’ve never seen before and never want to see again.

If you really want to get in shape, you can’t have those days where you feel weak.

I’ve done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page 87 and it says: “Rips his shirt off and casually throws it onto chair” – and you’re going to go to the gym the next day because nobody wants to see your big fat arse out there taking your shirt off!

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Pilates is my favorite meditative way to get in shape. I don’t like the gym and I don’t like running, so I just lay on my Pilates reformer. It’s great.

I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can’t tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.

I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape – jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I’ll never forget.

When you’re a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that’s it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

Whenever you’re looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey.

If you want to get in shape, go to the #‎ gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you’ll start doing something while you’re there.