Great Bodybuilding Quotes

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone 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. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on.

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.

Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

WAIT TILL THEY SEE THESE ARMS IN AFRICA. THEY LOOK BIG ENOUGH TO ME

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

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

When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

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

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

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.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

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.

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.

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

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

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.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

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.

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