Great Bodybuilding Quotes:

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspirational Health And Fitness, Strength Training, Motivational Bodybuilding, Physique, Great Bodybuilding

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

- Denis Waitley

topic: Failure, Next, Forget, Inspirational Success Failure, Motivational Bodybuilding

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Workout, Strength Training, Insurmountable

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Hate, Bodybuilder, Great Bodybuilding

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

- Jon Pall Sigmarsson

topic: Workout, Motivational Workout, Alive, Strength Training, Great Bodybuilding

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.

- Ronnie Coleman

source: "Ronnie Coleman: The Unbelievable!". DVD, 2005.

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Workout, Strength Training, Motivational Bodybuilding

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Life, Inspiring, Moving, Hungry Eyes, Meaning Life

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Strength Of Will

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

- Henry Rollins

source: Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.290, Villard

topic: Strength, Running, Two, Iron Will, Motivational Training

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

- Walter Bagehot

source: Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Life Is Not Worth Living, Just Live Your Life

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Great Sports, Sports Spirit

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

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Life, Basketball, Motivational Work, Famous Basketball

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Healthy Living, Healthy Habits

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Sports, Mirrors, Years, Motivational Bodybuilding, Great Bodybuilding

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Attitude, Struggle, Moving, Mentally Tough, Sports Mental Toughness

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Motivational Sports, Workout, Stress, Great Sports, Strength Training

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Stay Strong, Physical Fitness, Strength And Life

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

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, I Am The Best, Inspirational Coach

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Success, Sports, Motivation, Motivational Bodybuilding, Motivational Workout

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Success, Sports, Motivation, Motivational Bodybuilding, Remember Something

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

source: Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspiring, Positive Thinking, Helping, Great Bodybuilding

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment

- Justin Langer

topic: Workout, Pain, Disappointment, Motivational Workout, Great Bodybuilding

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

- Laurence Shahlaei

topic: Workout, Push Yourself, Prepared, Motivational Workout, Great Bodybuilding

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

- Margi Preus

topic: Strength, Fall, Bodybuilding, Japanese Proverbs, Strength Of Will

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

- Marian Diamond

topic: Change, Workout, Emotional, Young Entrepreneurs, Disruption

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. It feels fantastic. It's as satisfying to me as ***** is, you know, as in having sex with a woman and cumming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like getting the feeling of ***** in the gym; I'm getting the feeling of ***** at home; I'm getting the feeling of ***** backstage; when I pump up, when I pose out in front of 5000 people I get the same feeling, so I am ***** day and night. It's terrific, right? So you know, I am in heaven.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

source: "Pumping Iron". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 18, 1977.

topic: Sex, Real, Believe, Biceps, Rushing In

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

- Marilyn vos Savant

source: "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Journey To Success, Inspirational Determination

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Pain, Fall, Athlete, Passing Out, Fainting

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

- Henry Rollins

topic: Struggle, Achieve, Great Bodybuilding, Gym Fitness

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

- Donnie Burns

topic: Dance, Failing, Great Bodybuilding, Gym Motivation

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Great Bodybuilding, Helplessness

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspirational, Baby, Motivational Sports, Motivational Bodybuilding, Drinkers

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Sports, Dream, Forever, Try Again, Great Person

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Sports, Hero, Athlete, Great Bodybuilding, Idolized

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.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Sports, Attitude, Winning, Inner Power, Inspirational Stay Strong

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

- Lou Ferrigno

topic: Bodybuilding, Waiting, Looks, Great Bodybuilding