John F. Kennedy Quotes About Physical Fitness
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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.
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Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.
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The physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of each individual citizen to make full and fruitful use of his capacities.
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There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
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Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.
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