Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Fixx

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Jim Fixx.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

James Fuller Fixx was an American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book The Complete Book of Running. He is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution by popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age; his genetic predisposition for heart problems and other previous lifestyle factors may have caused his heart attack.

American - Author | April 23, 1932 - July 20, 1984

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Play not only keeps us young but also maintains our perspective about the relative seriousness of things. Running is play, for even if we try hard to do well at it, it is a relief from everyday cares.

Jim Fixx

Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

Jim Fixx

Is beer good for runners? Sure...if it's the other guy drinking it.

Jim Fixx

[Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.

Jim Fixx

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Jim Fixx

It is not something I must do but something I want to do.

Jim Fixx

The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.

Jim Fixx

Set aside a time solely for running. Running is more fun if you don't have to rush through it.

Jim Fixx

When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.

Jim Fixx