Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment
Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.
Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.
You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.
The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
WAIT TILL THEY SEE THESE ARMS IN AFRICA. THEY LOOK BIG ENOUGH TO ME
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
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.
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
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
If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.
Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.
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