I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
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.
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?
Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.
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
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
You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.
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.
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
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.
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.
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