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Bodybuilding Quotes
“Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.” – Ed Coan
“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
“Sell yourself short on nutrition and you’re selling yourself short on maximizing your physique development.” – Ernie Taylor
“Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.” – Jim Conroy
“Fortunately, there is a solution, and it’s not performing multiple sets of whatever cable Kegel exercise is being pushed as “The Answer.” Just a little hard, smart, basic work.” – Jim Wendler
“Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren’t prepared to go is what will make you great.” – Laurence Shahlaei
“My old routine was McDonald’s on the way to the gym, coffee during my workout, Burger King and Copenhagen post-workout.” – Dave Tate
“If your waist measurement begins with a 2…EAT!” – SCStrong
“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I’m an extremist, and I hope to be remembered that way: noncompliant and an artist. I do not want to be remembered as a nice guy. I want to be the slayer of Bambi.” – David Dearth
“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
“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
“If you’re capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren’t working hard enough.” – Dave Tate
“Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero.” – Steve Shaw
1“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“Don’t have $100.00 shoes and a 10 cent squat.” – Louie Simmons
“I’m sure you’ve all read the latest article on the popular muscle building sites about how to develop a fuller, thicker back with “these 2 NEW maximal hypertrophy igniting muscle shocking lifts!” The title lures you in, but when you get inside, you find a small man doing strange movements that make little sense and use almost no weight. They aren’t making him any thicker, and they aren’t likely to add slabs of lean mass to you either.” – Jordan Martin
“A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.” – Jack Dempsey
“Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn’t matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses.” – Tom Platz
“If you can’t explain the essence of your program to a three-year old in 60 seconds, its too complicated. I’ve trained with Olympic medal winners and I can assure you, they don’t do anything mysterious, they just do the exercises better than we do.” – Maik Weidenbach
“I’m the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.” – Franco Columbu
“There is no such thing as over training, just under nutrition and under sleeping.” – The Barbarian brothers
“The road to nowhere is paved with excuses.” – Mark Bell
“As soon as a milestone is passed, it’s significance fades, and the focus is shifted to some other marker further down the road. No matter what you do or how satisfying it is in that beautiful moment in time, immediately you want more. You have to, if you want to find out how good you can be.”
“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
“I don’t believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn’t have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.” – Steve Reeves
“I’m not sold on one diet philosophy. I’m sold on whatever will work for you.” – Dave Tate
“I always get suspicious whenever someone suggests that it’s the fruit in their diet that’s making them fat. I’ve seen a lot of crazy things in my time, but I’ve yet to encounter anyone whose admitted to polishing off a bag of apples while watching Dancing with the Stars…” – Shelby Starnes
“I’m not the kind of guy who tries to run between the drops. Sometimes you gotta get a little wet to reach your destination” – Erik Fankhouser
“Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.” – Mike Tyson
“To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men”. – ‘Dr. Squat’ Fred Hatfield.
“Learn it all, then forget it all.” – Bruce Lee
“Sacking up is 90%.” – Steve Shaw
“Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.” – Mark Rippetoe
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Compare that to today. Today, we have the rise of the internet icons, guys who haven’t done a single, solitary thing in the sport actually giving opinions on training to other lifters. These are guys who never even totaled elite but own websites and set themselves up as experts and actually get interviewed for their opinions when the only thing they have learned is what some college professor told them. No practical knowledge, no trial and error, no accomplishments, and in many cases, not even an ounce of muscle mass. Who in the blue hell made these guys experts?” – Billy Mimnaugh
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.” – Dan John
“There’s more to life than training, but training is what puts more in your life.” – Brooks Kubik
Bodybuilding Quotes And Sayings
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
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.William Arthur Ward
Not only are squats not bad for the knees, every legitimate research study on this subject has shown that squats improve knee stability and therefore help reduce the risk of injuries.Charles Poliquin
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.Lance Armstrong
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.Mahatma Gandhi
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.Jesse Owens
In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.Rich Froning
Discipline is the bridge between your bodybuilding goals and bodybuilding success.Felicity Luckey
Fortunately, there is a solution, and it’s not performing multiple sets of whatever cable Kegel exercise is being pushed as The Answer. Just a little hard, smart, basic work.Jim Wendler
If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.Bret Contreras
Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.Jack Lalanne
There is no such thing as over training, just under nutrition and under sleeping.The Barbarian brothers
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.Arnold
Your body is a piece of art but it’s always a work in progress. You are never done improving your symmetry and eliminating weak points.Morgan Aste
To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong menFred Hatfield
There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.George Halas
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.Jack Lalanne
The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.Arnold Schwarzenegger
I’m not sold on one diet philosophy. I’m sold on whatever will work for you.Dave Tate
All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.Dorian Yates
Stimulate don’t annihilateLee Haney
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.Arnold Schwarzenegger
Is it 10g of protein more or 10g of protein less, who cares, just get startedKai Greene
I don’t do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.Markus Ruhl
Motivational Bodybuilding Quotes
“Never give up. Your dreams are waiting for you.”
“Suffer the pain of self-discipline. Or suffer the pain of regret.”
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” Ann Landers
“If you aren’t begging for rest. Then you aren’t training your best.”
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”– Olin Miller
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” Mario Andretti
“Don’t be upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.”
“When things don’t happen right away just remember it takes six months to build a Rolls-Royce and thirteen hours to build a Toyota.”
“There are two types of pain in this world: pain that hurts you and pain that changes you.”
“It never gets easier. You just get stronger.”
“Excuses are for those who need them.”
“Your body is a reflection of your lifestyle.”
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
“Nothing is over until you stop trying.”
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.” – Eric Thomas
“It’s not about having time. It’s about making time.”
“To be a champion, you must act like a champion.” – Lou Ferrigno
“The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.”
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” Colin Powell
“You don’t always get what you wish for. But you always get what you work for.”
Inspirational Bodybuilding Quotes
When people said to Arnold: “We never want to look like you!”, he replied: “Don’t worry, you’ll never will”
Strong people don’t put others down… They go to the gym and lift heavy ass weights.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Arnold has his own shirt size. There’s small, medium, large, extra large, and Arnold.
Just remember who was by your side when everyone else left.
To do list: 1. build muscle, 2. burn fat, 3. get shredded, 4. repeat.
Look in the mirror. That is your only competition.
Someone, somewhere is warming up with you max. Still done for the day?
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.
If you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got.
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.
Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.
Bodybuilding Quotes For Haters
“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.” – Mark Rippetoe
“Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.” – Ed Coan
“Sell yourself short on nutrition and you’re selling yourself short on maximizing your physique development.” – Ernie Taylor
“Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren’t prepared to go is what will make you great.” – Laurence Shahlaei
“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson
“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
“If you’re capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren’t working hard enough.” – Dave Tate
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.” – Jack Dempsey
“The road to nowhere is paved with excuses.” – Mark Bell
Bodybuilding Quotes For Whatsapp/ Instagram
With great size comes great responsibility.
I’m not here to talk.
Doubt me, hate me, you’re the inspiration I need.
When it starts to hurt, that’s when the set starts.
Squat till you puke.
Be proud, but never satisfied.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
If the bar ain’t bending you’re just pretending.
A winner never whines.
When it starts to hurt, that’s when the set starts.
Strength Within, Pride Throughout.
Ain’t nothing to it but to do it.
Winners Train, Losers Complain.
Eat clean. Train Mean. Get Lean.
I’m doing it for ME.
Good is not enough if better is possible.
You don’t demand respect, you earn it.
Character is who you are when no one’s watching.
Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Fuck skinny. Get fit.