Top 100 Jack Lalanne Quotes
#1. Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.
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#2. When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot. The doctors used to say, Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound
this is what I had to go through.
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#3. The only way you can hurt the body is not use it,
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#4. Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.
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#6. The only way you can hurt your body is if you don't use it
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#7. The hell what you USED to do! It's what you're doing NOW and what you're GOING to do.
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#8. Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
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#9. Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.
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#10. Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.
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#12. I've always liked fast cars and slow women.
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#13. Develop a positive attitude. Think and picture how amazing you are going to be. Visualize it!
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#14. If it tastes good, spit it out. All those cakes and pies and candy and ice cream
all that terrible fast food stuff! I just bought a new corvette sports car ... would I put oil in the gas tank? Would I?
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#15. Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late.
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#16. Muscle cells strengthen in response to intense exercise - whether you're 18 or 88. But the intensity is what's lacking in most people's workouts. And there are doctors who'll give you the advice, "Well, don't push it."
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#17. 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.
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#18. I never think of my age, never - I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I'm just me.
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#19. What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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#20. I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people ... come on humans ... do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive ... you're half dead. Let's do some living".
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#21. I think fat, out-of-shape people should be fined.
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#22. I'd rather take a beating sometimes than get in that gym every morning. Anyone who gets up that early and says he likes it is a goddamned liar. The only good thing about it is that when I'm finished, I look at myself in the mirror and say, Jack, you've done it again!
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#23. It's not what you do some of the time that counts, it's what you do all of the time that counts.
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#25. 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.
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#26. You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying!
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#27. You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.
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#28. 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?
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#29. 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.
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#30. By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.
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#31. 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.
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#32. If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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#33. 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.
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#34. You should do it against the clock. Say you are going to do 30 laps in 15 minutes. Then you try to do it each day a little faster. That is putting demands on the body, and that is how you build up. You keep up your energy instead of going downhill.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Sex is the greatest driving force on this planet. Christ, why are we living if we can't have a little fun? Sex is giving, and the more you give, the better lover you are.
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#38. I don't care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!
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#39. 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.
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#40. I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.
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#41. There is no fountain of youth, What you put into your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette. You will kill the damn dog.
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#42. 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.
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#43. It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.
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#44. I can't afford to die. It would wreck my image.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.
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#47. Exercise is your king, and nutrition is your queen. Together they create your fitness kingdom.
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#48. If you don't like Corvettes, you don't like sex and money.
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#49. 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.
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#50. The food you eat today is walking and talking tomorrow.
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#51. Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student's life, know everything about him. Be interested.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. All athletes would be better if they eat better. Junk in equals Junk out.
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#55. 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.
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#56. My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.
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#57. Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
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#58. 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!
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#59. Billy Graham is for the hereafter, I'm for the here and now!
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#60. I want to move well and comfortably, and enjoy the world around me.
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#61. You put junk in, junk comes out. You put good in, good comes out.
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#62. People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me
they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.
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#63. 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.
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#64. Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Never get satisfied. The minute you stop trying, you go downhill.
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#67. Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.
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#68. Have you seen some of the crap they're selling as exercise equipment now? How about that Suzanne Somers? She should have been thrown in jail for selling the piece-of-crap Thigh Master. It just develops a little muscle on the inner thigh. What good is that?
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#69. 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.
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#70. 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.
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#71. When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King.
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#72. Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.
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#73. 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.
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#74. If you want to change somebody, don't preach to him. Set an example and shut up.
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#75. The crusade is never off my mind
the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think
all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing
physical culture and nutrition
is the salvation of America.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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?
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#79. If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!
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#80. Sex has to do with imagination, so the sky is the limit. If you're not doing bodily harm, why shouldn't you do what turns you on?
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#81. People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress.
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#82. 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.
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#83. It's difficult to change overnight but if you are persistent and take one step at a time you will see results!
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#84. Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield ... Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.
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#85. I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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#86. I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.
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#88. 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.'
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#89. I'm a believer in routine. I like to see people work out at the same time each day.
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#90. You start out with an hour on the treadmill, then another hour of lifting - hell, in two weeks you're not doing anything anymore. You gotta be reasonable.
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#91. 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!
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#92. You only live once, why be miserable? Fat people are miserable
you are carrying 50 lbs on your shoulders all day, you get a disease called "pooped-out itis". Don't tell me that they are happy with the way they look and feel. I have to be honest, that is all I have.
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#93. The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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#94. The spine is the lifeline. A lot of people should go to a chiropractor but they don't know it.
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#95. I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.
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#96. You can exercise vigorously and eat junk and get by. But you can't eat perfectly and not exercise. Look at many athletes today; they are human garbage cans. They eat anything, but they exercise so hard they burn it up. But why not exercise and put the right fuel in too?
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#97. You can't separate the mind and body. It's impossible.
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#98. 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.
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#99. 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.
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#100. The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be a little groggy, a little grumpy.
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