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In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.

You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

I run or walk three times a week. I do Pilates, too, which is amazing - it makes you longer and leaner.

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.