Fitness Quote by Gus Grissom

As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive 150 years…

— Gus Grissom

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

— Alexander Pope

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope…

— Alan Shepard

I had been lucky that my physiology is well suited to space training.

— Helen Sharman

Training is very tiring.

— Vitor Belfort

In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed…

— Linda M. Godwin

I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent…

— Geoffrey Rush

It's the training that's the hardest. It's the preparation. The months and months of preparation that nobody really sees, that's the hardest part.

— Katie Taylor

Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single effort of…

— Chris Hoy

It was challenging to understand what was necessary to successfully carry out all the training simulations that we, as crewmen, would experience, and make…

— Buzz Aldrin

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then…

— Linda M. Godwin

Over the years, I was always training hard, no matter what position I was in.

— Lukasz Fabianski