We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. – Susan B. Anthony

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. – Alec Yuill Thornton