Great Bodybuilding Quotes

• The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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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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• If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

  Donnie Burns

  Dance, Gym Motivation, Failing

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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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• 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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• 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

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

  Jon Pall Sigmarsson

  Motivational, Workout, Bodybuilding

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports, Believe

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Strength, Fitness, Bodybuilding

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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.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Iron, Feelings, Pumps

  "Pumping Iron". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 18, 1977.

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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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• The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Fitness, Motivational Sports

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

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  Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

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

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

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• 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

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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 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 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

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• 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

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