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There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me."
Oct 2, 2025
The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Health is worth more than learning.
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.
Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
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.
Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.
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.
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.
Good things come to those who initiate.
Good things come to those who hustle
Good things come to those who wait.
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
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 secret of getting ahead is getting started
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
If you think you can't, you're right.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.