Great Bodybuilding Quotes

• 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

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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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• The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment

  Justin Langer

  Motivational, Workout, Pain

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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  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

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

  Lou Ferrigno

  Bodybuilding, Waiting, Looks

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Strength, Fitness, Bodybuilding

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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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