Bodybuilding Training 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

  Strength, Sports, Fitness

  19 Copy quote

• 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

  Life, Inspiring, Workout

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Motivational, Strength, Being Strong

  57 Copy quote

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Workout, Stress

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Workout

  FaceBook post by Arnold Schwarzenegger from Jun 04, 2014

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Fitness, Motivational Workout, Work Out

  38 Copy quote

• 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

  Strength, Running, Workout

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

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

  Dorian Yates

  Strength, Mistake, Motivational Workout

  95 Copy quote

• There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

  Henry Rollins

  Fighting, Bodybuilding, Iron Will

  19 Copy quote

• I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  17 Copy quote

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

  Jim Conroy

  Girl, Workout, Bodybuilding

  49 Copy quote

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

  Ronnie Coleman

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

  211 Copy quote

• I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?

  Vince Gironda

  Workout, Business, Love Yourself

  71 Copy quote
• 

  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

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

  34 Copy quote

• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  348 Copy quote

• The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Strength, Fitness, Bodybuilding

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  18 Copy quote
• 

  Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

  328 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jon Pall Sigmarsson

  Motivational, Workout, Bodybuilding

  12 Copy quote

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

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

  32 Copy quote

• You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports, Believe

  10 Copy quote

• The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Success, Dance

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 17, 2014

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

  213 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

  663 Copy quote

  Show source