Bodybuilding Training Quotes

Train insane or remain the same.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try my technique. Just put it to your personality, put it to yourself, and you develop your workout. Cause those books and things, those are other people's gimmicks and hypes. Build your own gimmick and hype, and that'll make you a better powerlifter. Not just doin' it like James does it, cause if you try to fly off the building like superman you'll be out there in the middle of the street.

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

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift

There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!

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?

On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

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?

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

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

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.

That's a good weight...for a small woman

Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

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.

I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

Always remember this...there is only ONE recipe for strength. A secret recipe that was handed down from Sandow to John Grimek to Paul Anderson to Vasily Alexeev to Bill Kazmaier to me. Now I'm giving you that magical recipe...hard work plus proper nutrition plus time equals strong.

Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.

Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

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.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is.

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

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.

If you don't like what you see, stop looking.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.