Best 198 quotes in «bodybuilding quotes» category

For some people hope is all they have. Encourage them and don't take their hope away, for they will be left with nothing.

Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs.

From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.

Going to the gym was never about 'working out' like it is for most people. To me, It was a matter of life or death. It was either me or the weights-and I was going to win. I've always had that competitive streak, whether it was in the gym, on the stage, or In anything else I did.

Go out of your way to make an outstanding first impression.

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

I always go heavy and I always go to failure. Even when I tell myself I'm gonna go easy, once I get to the gym and start working, I never end up going easy. I hate leaving the floor feeling like I could have done more weight or more reps. I just love working out and going further than I ever did before.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.

I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

I believe that true success in bodybuilding nutrition comes from some variety in diet. It allows for more creativity, enables a bodybuilder to enjoy diversity, and causes less stress emotionally and mentally compared to a very basic diet for which a bodybuilder will lose enthusiasm for over time.

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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?

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.

I never think about losing.

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.

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.

Intensity builds immensity

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.

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

I will persist until I succeed!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Make it a goal to be somebody's hero.