Quotes and Sayings About Bodybuilding
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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.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. "I can't..." should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.
-- Arnold SchwarzeneggerSource : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall (1993). “Arnold”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
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I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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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.
-- Arnold SchwarzeneggerSource : Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.308, Simon and Schuster
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There are some girls who are turned on by my body, and some others who are turned off. but for the majority i just use it as a conversation piece. like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd street would have a natural conversation piece. then when they get to talking to me they see i am not mean but gentle to them and thats all they want to know
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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.
-- Branch Warren -
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.
-- Branch Warren -
I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.
-- Branch Warren -
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When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.
-- Daniel Cormier -
All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.
-- Dorian Yates -
The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.
-- Dorian Yates -
Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.
-- Dorian Yates -
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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.
-- Doug Hepburn -
I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.
-- Franco Columbu -
To be successful in bodybuilding you have to be a good observer
-- Frank Zane -
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Nothing is as important to muscle growth as good nutrition.
-- Fredrick Hatfield -
Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.
-- Greg Plitt -
Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.
-- Joe Gold -
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.
-- Kai GreeneSource : FaceBook post by Kai Greene from Jul 26, 2011
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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.
-- Kai Greene -
Bodybuilding has been the tool that single-handedly taught a little black boy from the projects to use his mind to achieve success. it taught me to see things for what they can be. I had 17-inch arms; I imagined them to be 24 inches. The power of my mind allowed me to achieve what I imagined.
-- Kai Greene