Barbell Quotes

• Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Motivational, Strong, Workout

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• Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Effort, Normal, Absence

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• Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

  Oliver DeMille

  Exercise, Thinking, Consistency

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• I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a difference between being an ambitious, driven woman or passionate woman and a passionate man? That is something that has come up a lot.

  Megan Griffiths

  Strong, Men, Differences

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• A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Suffering, Lines

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• The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

  Ed Zern

  Wall, Lakes, Sea

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• I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM was talking to some other guy about Nazis, UFOs, the Kennedy Assassination, time travel, and George Bush, and how it all relates to OneWorldGovernment. This, of course, made me think about barbell training.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Art, Home, Thinking

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• I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?" A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway." "While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.

  Gena Showalter

  Stupid, Eye, Should Have

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.19, HQN Books

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• You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with my life, Diane. But I'm hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance.

  Emma McLaughlin

  Mirrors, Should, Said

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