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Jack LaLanne was American exercise instructor. Explore interesting quotes on jack.

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“When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, [he said]. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound — this is what I had to go through.”

In "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement, LosAngeles Times"

“My show was so personal, I made it feel like you and I were the only ones there. And I’d say: Boys and girls, come here. Uncle Jack wants to tell you something. You go get Mother or Daddy, Grandmother, Grandfather, whoever is in the house. You go get them, and you make sure they exercise with me.”

In "Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96, New York Times."

“God gives us the power to act for ourselves, but let me tell you something. At five in the morning I have never heard this [he says mimicking a knock on the door]. Hello Jack, this is Jesus. I will work out today.”

In "Live Young Forever: 12 Steps to Optimum Health, Fitness and Longevity", pp.10-11

“Aw:North America|Anything in life is possible and YOU make it happen"! - Jack LaLanne: Live young forever, Robert Kennedy Publishing, Mississauga 2009, P. 15”

LaLanne's reply when asked for the best advice he'd ever received, reported in the Denver Post (28 December 2003)

“If men are from Mars and women from Venus, what planet did Jack come from? Jack insists he is from planet earth.”

Diana Cyr, in "Live Young Forever: 12 Steps to Optimum Health, Fitness and Longevity", p. 10

“At 21 years of age Jack developed the first models of exercise equipment, and these are standards in gyms today.”

Robert Kennedy, in "Live Young Forever: 12 Steps to Optimum Health, Fitness and Longevity", p. 9