Great Bodybuilding Quotes

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

Donnie Burns

Dance, Gym Motivation, Failing

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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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Fall, Wake Up, Fainting

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

Henry Rollins

Struggle, Bodybuilding, Achieve

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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

Workout, Bad Ass, Push Yourself

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The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment

Justin Langer

Motivational, Workout, Pain

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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

Sports, Hero, Athlete

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Success, Sports, Motivation

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

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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

Pain, Fall, Athlete

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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

Attitude, Struggle, Moving

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Motivational Sports, Giving Up, Matter

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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

Life, Success, Sports

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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

Success, Sports, Dream

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Inspirational, Inspiring, Positive Thinking

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

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Inspirational, Baby, Motivational Sports

"Pumping Iron". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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

Lou Ferrigno

Bodybuilding, Waiting, Looks

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The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding, Blow, Air

"Pumping Iron". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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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

Sports, Bodybuilding, Clothes

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

Ronnie Coleman

Motivational, Fitness, Workout

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

Jon Pall Sigmarsson

Motivational, Workout, Bodybuilding

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Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Margi Preus

Strength, Fall, Bodybuilding

Margi Preus (2011). “Heart of a Samurai”, p.157, Abrams

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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

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

Denis Waitley

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub

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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

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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 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

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