Yuichiro Miura quote: "After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting."

Retiring at 57 was a good idea. But playing golf and boating and fishing got a little old after a wh...
JERRY GREEN

for a fat kid like me, it felt like Mount Everest.
TONY STEWART

One of the reasons I got really fat when I left home was because I thought rich people ate white bre...
ALISON MOYET

I realized I wasn't who I thought I was, ... I wasn't Brett Hull at 30 or 35 even. I was 41 years ol...
BRETT HULL

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
TENZING NORGAY

Terence was one of the people I was listening to a lot back then. After I worked with him, I thought...
AARON PARKS

Four years after the bubble popped, I can't believe that companies still legitimately have enough fa...
BARRY RITHOLTZ

The show is structured to get the audience back into the story after intermission. That takes about ...
JERRY MITCHELL

I thought we didn't come out with a lot of energy early in the game and I thought we were just stand...
BOB MURPHREY

Everything was great on my job last year. I got a fat raise.
GEOFFREY BROWNE

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting a...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I was old and fat when I started, ... This makes you young ---- and not fat.
DAVID AYERS

I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the onl...
GEORGE BURNS

GreenHollyWood is a stupid fat guy, saying (I will watch that and I will check that...) and in the e...
DEYTH BANGER

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
A. J. JACOBS

This one was more nerve-wracking than last year, because I'm retiring from diving after nine years. ...
THOMAS EVANS

The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.
JOSH LEWSEY

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down a...
ZAINAB SALBI

V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to g...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON

I thought this would be a good opportunity to restart my career after a five-year hiatus. And I want...
HENRY WHITE

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat becau...
RAFE SPALL

I have not always been fat. I have certainly never been this fat. I am shocked, sometimes, at how un...
JOANNA FRANKLIN BELL

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
AARON PEIRSOL

a little fat man with a notebook in his hand,
CALVIN COOLIDGE

I was rather a fat little boy.
CYRIL CUSACK

I stand behind that record totally, and I always want Madonna to do well, ... but the Mount Everest ...
WILLIAM ORBIT

I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to goi...
GARY JOHNSON

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only g...
JAMI ATTENBERG

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things -- the ne...
WILLEM DE KOONING

I would never be like, 'Hey, I'm fat!' or, like, be psyched if somebody calls me fat in ...
SARAH BAKER

They have very little fat on them and this was in October, at the time of year when we would expect ...
MATT AUSTIN

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five y...
MARK SALLING

He's got another 10 days after tomorrow to run in the Saab (Quality) or Mackinnon (Stakes) to get in...
GAI WATERHOUSE

After one week, it sold a million records. Then it went on to sell five million. I was 26 years old ...
RONNIE MCDOWELL

I thought it would be nice if I got one or two. Everything after that was just icing on the cake.
LEE ANN WOMACK

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you bui...
JACK LALANNE

If I thought Cisco was going to grow 40 percent for one year, I would never pay two-plus the growth ...
HUGH JOHNSON

I was surprised. I thought there would be more definitive answers about the value of the low-fat die...
JUDY LACOUR

I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking - and tha...
CHARLES BARKLEY

When he was a little kid, he was a fat, spoiled kid. I can tell the type.
STAN FREBERG

After a year with him I got to a position where I didn't have to do nothing in the street no more. B...
JUELZ SANTANA

I think a movie would be great, and I'd love to do it. I've been wanting to do it for years. Nobody ...
LUCY LAWLESS

Then there was the realisation that I didn't actually feel that much better when I was thin(ner). In...
HELEN BROWN

I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat c...
HARRY MELLING

Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 ...
AMIT KALANTRI

I took a shot and got a 'Fat Man' on him. I took his elbow and spun him.
DAN MARSH

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
JACK NICHOLSON

A little, round, fat, oily man of God.
JAMES THOMSON

After five events I never thought I would win.
ANDRE NIKLAUS

Nothing I do can't be done by a 10-year-old with 15 years of practice.
HARRY BLACKSTONE, JR.

I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be...
ADAM MCKAY

We had a very, very difficult seven years. The end result we would have been happy with. It went ver...
JEAN CLAUDE KILLY

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if...
KIRSTIE ALLEY

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL

I've always wanted to work toward year-round grazing and thought this would be a good opportunity to...
BRUCE CARNEY

Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking bo...
KARAN JOHAR

After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts abou...
TONI COLLETTE

When I was a lieutenant in Special Forces many many years ago, I thought I was getting fat. And I st...
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.
PETE DYE

Who's going to hire me at 60 years old when they can hire a 30-year old or a 40-year old?
CONNIE BAKER

I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought th...
JESSIE J

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Wh...
WHITNEY HOUSTON

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
JOE CARNAHAN

I never dreamed I would be here after I got into coaching. I didn't do very good at that.
D. WAYNE LUKAS

That's no Mount Everest, but for a little rover this was a heck of a climb,
STEVE SQUYRES

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a fam...
HEIDI KLUM

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you c...
RON WHITE

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist...
EMM GRYNER

I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
ED WESTWICK

I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling c...
DANIEL BRYAN

As a child, I got bored with my surroundings, so I would be another person for a little while.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conc...
RONALD REAGAN

It's a very high priority, and we are very committed to continuing with testing and lowering the lev...
CATHY KAPICA

Two hundred years ago cooking was very time consuming. Actually, for most families until after the 1...
KATHRYN BEACH

I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.
DAWN FRENCH

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luck...
JO BRAND

I finished the season with a fat body. I gained some of the weight partially because I couldn't work...
JOEY EISCHEN

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inc...
RAFE SPALL

I thought about how disappointed I was. I would admit that after that race I was broken in half. It ...
AARON DOBSON

After that bus ride, I thought we were going to be a little tired.
LUIS DORANTE

I thought Coach Wood would hang on another five or six years. He has a great program going there. I'...
GARY PITTILLO

When I met Del, I was doing these theater-sports type things, ... But I was very bored, and I said t...
CHARNA HALPERN

I stopped dieting on plain, boring, unsatisfying food and started eating rich, delicious meals full ...
SUZANNE SOMERS

I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but a...
JEAN NIDETCH

For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke...
JEAN NIDETCH

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
JACK NICHOLSON

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
KATHARINE WHITEHORN

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in
KATHERINE WHITEHORN

When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you&...
JOE TORRE

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put...
BERT BLYLEVEN

When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-s...
LAETITIA CASTA

This is a very exciting place, ... The potential to do something here seemed to be really quite grea...
GLENN LOURY

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleas...
ROBERT MORRIS

After the storm I got to thinking, 'What would I do?' ... I just want to be able to do something. Ma...
FRANK FLOYD

A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a l...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

He could be a butterfly dreaming he's a man."
"Well, he's not. He's a big fat man dreaming he's...
DEREK LANDY

And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got ...
CHELAN SIMMONS

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

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Yuichiro Miura

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

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