Bodybuilding Quotes - Page 6

• Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

  Mark Rippetoe

  Men, Vanity, Self

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• I will persist until I succeed!

  Og Mandino

  Succeed, Persist

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.55, Bantam

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  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 Greene

  Art, Self, Portraits

  FaceBook post by Kai Greene from Jul 26, 2011

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• I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Motivational, Tough, Gym

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• Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

  Lee Labrada

  Youth, Fountain, Closest

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• Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.

  Greg Plitt

  Mind, Muscles, Valuable

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• All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.

  Gary Catona

  Exercise, People, Trying

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

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• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Gary Player

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• 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

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• 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

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• There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift

  Jon Pall Sigmarsson

  Strength, Alive, No Point

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• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Fitness, Athlete

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• My brother is my best friend and nothing is stronger than family.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Brother, Stronger

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• We all need to have heroes, people to admire and look up to. To find a hero, first look to your parents or older brother or sister. Then look to the people who share the same morals and values that you have, and have accomplished the goals that you strive to achieve.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Brother, Hero

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• Your friends may influence your decisions even more than your parents will.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Decision, Parent

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• If in a tense or nervous situation, take a moment to center and ground yourself and make a thoughtful decision. Remember that nothing is as important as it first seems.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Thoughtful, Decision

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• I'll be back always sounded a little girly to me.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Girly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• I was always dreaming about very powerful people. Dictators and things like that. I was always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years. Even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Dream, Jesus

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger's womanising ways return to haunt him" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2011.

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• "With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn't normal. Normal people can be happy with a regular life. I was different. I felt there was more to life than plodding through a normal existence. I'd always been impressed by stories of greatness and power. I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the best. I saw bodybuilding as the vehicle that would take me to the top, and I put all my energy into it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Life, Motivational, Dream

  "Arnold Education of a Bodybuilder". Book by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Douglas Kent Hall, 1977.

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• 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

  Boys, Mind, Black

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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 Schwarzenegger

  Total Recall, Skis, Miles

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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  Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Fear

  "Fictional character: Cypher Raige". "After Earth", www.imdb.com. May 28, 2013.

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• A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.

  Serge Nubret

  Motivational, Sports, Metaphor

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