I have always loved and admired Jack LaLanne, but after viewing the videos and reading the articles that have emerged since his death on Sunday, I am now in love with him!
Clearly, his sense of humor, positive attitude, determination and no-nonsense, no excuses, common sense approach to healthy living fueled his long and happy life.
Check out this tribute to the life of Jack LaLanne…
Top Twelve Favorite Jack LaLanne Quotes:
“I can’t afford to die. It will wreck my image.”
“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.”
“Do you think that man could ever make a machine that the only way you could hurt it is don’t use it? Could man make a machine that in every 90 days practically every cell changes? Think about this.”
“Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom!”
“If you haven’t exercised for a long time, just start out for a couple of minutes a day. Then work it up a little bit. You’d be surprised at the end of thirty days, how many things you are doing.”
“I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!”
“You like your dog? Would you get your dog up in the morning and give him a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a doughnut?”
“People are exceeding the feed limit.”
“If man makes it, don’t eat it.”
“Anything that happens to you, good or bad, all you ladies and gentlemen, you make it happen.”
“When a New York Times reporter phoned him for an interview in 2004, Mr. LaLanne demanded, ‘How often do you work out?’ Told ‘I don’t,’ Mr. LaLanne responded: ‘Are you sitting down? Then stand up. Sit down. Stand up. Sit down. . . . ‘ from Washington Post, January 24, 2011
“A lot of people say, ‘I’m fat because my dad is fat.’ You’re fat because you ate all that junk that your dad was eating to make him fat.”
And one interesting piece of trivia: Did you know the jumping jack was named after Jack LaLanne, who started his morning television show with the now famous exercise?
Thank you Jack for paving the way for what we now take for granted as common knowledge and common practice. You set out to change the world, and you did it! You are an inspiration for all of us!! Congratulations on a life fully lived!
Quotes are sourced from various articles and interviews that I’ve read and watched today
