Best 198 quotes in «bodybuilding quotes» category

I challenge myself everyday to be the most positive and enthusiastic person I know.

I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

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

I'd rather have a picture-perfect body than a million dollars in my pocket.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

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

If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

If in a tense or nervous situation, take a moment to center and ground yourself and make a thoughtful decision. Remember that nothing is as important as it first seems.

I never think about losing.

I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?

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

I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

Imagine yourself at your funeral. Ask yourself what you want your family and friends to say about you. How will you be remembered and what impact will you have had on other people's lives? How did you make the world a better place?

If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back.

I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

I'm always positive when it comes to professional bodybuilding, hell I'm Mr. Olympia for God's sake. If I'm number one in our sport and I have a negative attitude then our sport don't need me and I don't need our sport. There are problems and controversy in all sports. That's really unavoidable.

I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the mr Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Olivia and Lou ferrigno.

Intensity builds immensity

In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.

It is worth it to give up all that you now are to be all that you could become.

I take exercise for each part of the body: arms, legs, back and whatever muscles are required to keep the body fit. I do at least 20 different exercises daily for my upper and lower body. Then I come here every morning to do calf raises and play tennis. If there is time in the afternoon, I play tennis again. At least three hours I spend on weightlifting and bodybuilding.

It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting ready to go somewhere. Can you tell me that greasing your body up and posing in front of a mirror is masculine? A bodybuilder puts strength secondary to his physique, whereas the lifter puts strength foremost because it is more masculine to do so.

It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.

I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability.

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn't mean you should back off your triceps workouts.

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

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

I will persist until I succeed!

Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.

Make it a goal to be somebody's hero.

Laugh a lot. Laughter will make even the dreariest situations a whole lot more enjoyable.

Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we're really trying to accomplish.

Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

Most people are afraid to follow their dreams. The thought of failure is too much for them to handle so they never even try to achieve them.

My brother is my best friend and nothing is stronger than family.

Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time.

One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size.

Nobody knows you better than you do.

My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

My understanding about nutrition is not what I'd like it to be, so for a long time my dieting strategy was very crude. It's only very recently that I started to accept different ideas like using vegetables and natural seasonings that don't compromise the sodium and caloric value of the food while at the same time giving it some flavor. I'm still evolving; everybody is or at least should be in bodybuilding.

Nothing is as important to muscle growth as good nutrition.

One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.

On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.