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I realized that if I could shed some extra weight, it would make a huge difference for my knee.

— Mardy Fish

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

— Sophia Bush

Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.

— Larry Fitzgerald

A lot of fitness is about contractions - you're doing squats, or you're on a bike and your knees are bending but never stretching…

— Mary Helen Bowers

I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

— Lisa Marie Presley

The more kilos you have to move around, the more it weighs on your knees. Then of course in terms of stamina, the way…

— Amelie Mauresmo

The answer to your problems is the distance between your knees and the floor.

— Anonymous

Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching…

— Geneen Roth

There's a correlation to it: The more velocity you have, the more stress it puts on joints, ligaments, etc.

— Max Fried

I'm only 5ft 2in so a significant increase in weight is really going to be noticed.

— Dervla Kirwan

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to…

— Ann Richards

Squats don't hurt your knees; what you are doing hurts your knees.

— Dan John