Richard Gough Quotes

In many ways, I feel I'm still as physically fit as I was 20 years ago because I've always been athletic.

You must be in supreme physical condition. If your body isn't right, you cannot play in the Premier League.

I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.

I was always in good shape.

I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start, as it's healthy.

Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

I am quite a physical chap - I think that's why my waist and physique are pretty much the same as when I was a kid, although my chest is a lot bigger.

I am not a man in decent shape.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.

Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.

When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.

I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

I try to swim for 30 minutes and walk for 30 minutes, because if I don't, my finely honed body will slip into its old ways.

I walk every day, and I run and do all kinds of that.

Just knowing how the body works and being athletic means it's easier to stay athletic while working a different job.

From the ages of 18 to 50 I ran, rowed and lifted weights at my home gym.

It's cool to stay active and keep my body going.

Even though I retired, I work out four to five days a week, run two to three miles, I play ball.

I haven't always been into fitness. But I noticed that when I'd be on stage playing a show, I could hardly make it through the fifth song without having to take a breather.

For me, fitness is a part of my everyday life. But fitness does not mean having big muscles; it means being active, quick, and flexible. It can be defined in many terms.