48 Movie Quotes about Fitness (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about fitness, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 If everybody's got one of these auto whatsits, does anybody walk or run anymore? -Of course we run, but for recreation, for fun.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

22 Run for fun? What the hell kind of fun is that?

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part III

23 Yes. Well, we'll certainly have to do something about your stomach.

George Sanders as Monsieur Benjamin Ballon in A Shot in the Dark (1964)

24 'Cause you just don't train the body. You got to get into the soul.

Drew Bundini Brown in The Greatest (1977)

25 Man, your doctor don't know what he's talking about. That's what you want to do: strain. You want to run until it pains. You want to run until your throat feels like sandpaper. You want to run until it feels like you're going to throw up.

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

26 I've seen him run away from things that aren't even things to run away from. -Yeah, well, that must be how he keeps in training.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

27 Do you want to be all muscle and no brain?

Karl Swenson as Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

28 Think I'll begin with a hop.

Robert Morse as Stuffy in The First Easter Rabbit (1976)

29 Oh, dear Lord, not jogging.

Frank Oz as Miss Piggy in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

30 Thanks to jogging, more people than ever are dropping dead in perfect health.

Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti in Easy Money (1983)