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I was the worst, most sickly kid of all – 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.

— Jack LaLanne

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Anything in life is possible and YOU make it happen!

I can’t die, [he most famously liked to say]. It would ruin my image.

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Robert Kennedy:He was the first to have women work out with weights - a radical idea.

People thought I was a charlatan and a nut, [he remembered]. The doctors were against me — they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.

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