- “For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
This is one of Arnold’s best quotes!
- “The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.” – Henry Rollins
- “If a man tells you he doesn’t lift because he doesn’t want to get too bulky, then his testicles have been removed.” – Paul Carter
- “Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.” – Jim Conroy
- “If you’re capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren’t working hard enough.” – Dave Tate
- “Don’t have $100.00 shoes and a 10 cent squat.” – Louie Simmons
- “There is no such thing as over training, just under nutrition and under sleeping.” – The Barbarian brothers
- “I don’t do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.” – Markus Ruhl
- “Some people like to live without too much risk. They’re satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete – or businessperson – enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you’re squatting 500 for reps and you can’t get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that’s set one.” -Tom Platz
- “The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment.” – Dorian Yates
- “There’s more to life than training, but training is what puts more in your life.” – Brooks Kubik
- “There is no reason to be alive if you can’t do the deadlift!” – Jon Pall Sigmarsson (see the quote in action here but don’t forget to read on)
(Sadly and ironically, did the 4x World’s Strongest Man, Jon Pall Sigmarsson from Iceland, have a heart attack when doing the deadlift at 32 yrs old, may he rest in peace)
- “Working chest, delts, tris, and biceps works approximately 10% of your overall lean body mass. Working hard on deadlifts (bent legged, trap Bar, or sumo) or squatting (not necessarily at the same time) works more like 70% of your musculature at once and sends a strong message to your body to get better at growing now!” – Wesley Silveira
- “I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don’t like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?” – Vince Gironda
- “There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.” – Mark Rippetoe
- “After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can’t paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn’t just build muscle he creates muscle. You can’t be a robot.” – Tom Platz
- “People laugh and call me lazy, while they twit around in their three-hour workout making zero progress. Sometimes, instead of what you do in the weight room, it’s what you don’t do that will lead to success.” – Jim Wendler
- “I don’t eat for taste, I eat for function.” – Jay Cutler
- “If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.” – Bret Contreras
- “That’s a good weight…for a small woman” – Dorian Yates
- “Did you ever notice those who criticize the strong or the elite are usually weaker or less successful than those they pass judgment on. And those who are strong or elite in their respective sports rarely condemn those who are not as strong or as successful as they are.” – Louie Simmons
- “They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I’m living my life, I’m doing it. What are you doing?” – Kai Greene
- “You’ve got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You’ve got to get into a zone. You know you’re in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away ’cause they see the fire. You’ve got to be all business.” – Mike Matarazzo
- “On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.” – Steve Shaw
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