Gym Quotes - Page 4

• You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

  Cain Velasquez

  Wrestling, Successful, Mma

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

  Rob Sheffield

  Sports, School, Wrestling

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.37, Penguin

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• I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.

  Steve Reeves

  Motivational, Workout, Nice

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• The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is based on the elementary laws of mechanics, a study of the equilibrium of the human body, the ways in which it is disturbed, how to recover your own and take advantage of the shifting of the center of gravity of the other person. The first thing that is taught is how to fall down without being hurt, that alone is worth the price of admission and ought to be taught in all our gyms.

  John Dewey

  Hurt, Fall, Law

  John Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey (1921). “Letters from China and Japan”

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• I'd kiss you, but you smell like a gym bag.

  Janet Evanovich

  Kissing, Smell, Bags

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Sizzling Sixteen”, p.206, Macmillan

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• Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue. Just because the body can tolerate something doesn't mean it's a necessity for progress. This is simply poor logic.

  Steve Shaw

  Workout, Mean, Issues

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• The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

  Marilu Henner

  People, Trying, Meals

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• My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

  Shawn Johnson

  Training, Olympics, Skiing

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• The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Mysterious Benedict Society

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• Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

  Rodney King

  Good Day, Sober Up, Wake Up

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

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• My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.

  Diane Kruger

  Sports, Hiking, Camping

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• I've never been to the gym. I do nothing.

  Adriana Lima

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• I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Boxing, Gloves, Walks

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

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• I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!

  Martina McBride

  News, Records, Tvs

  Interview with Karen Borsari, www.shape.com. October 24, 2012.

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• There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

  Danica McKellar

  Workout, Math, Brain

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• I'm simple. I love hiking, going to the gym, doing some simple stuff. I love being outdoors, I love bike riding. Just stuff that's fun!

  Lea Michele

  Fun, Simple, Hiking

  "Lea Michele: From Gleek to Do-Gooder". Interview With Jené Luciani, www.shape.com.

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• I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn't get bored.

  Marisa Miller

  Fun, Bored, Trying

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• If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.

  Heather Brewer

  Two, Vampire, Garlic

  Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.140, Penguin

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• The church is the gym of the soul.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Inspirational, Soul, Church

  "Rocky's back and fighting for Jesus" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2006.

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• You can allow yourself 72 hours of wallowing time. Then you've got to get into the gym, stop eating the ice cream and move on.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Breakup, Moving, Ice Cream

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt: “There Is Somebody Great Out There for Me”, www.usmagazine.com. March 23, 2010.

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• There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Class, People

  Tupac Shakur, Afeni Shakur, Jacob Hoye, Karolyn Ali, Walter Einenkel (2003). “Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Flower, Boys, College

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.

  Martyn Rooney

  Sexy, Workout, Bad Ass

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• Always remember this...there is only ONE recipe for strength. A secret recipe that was handed down from Sandow to John Grimek to Paul Anderson to Vasily Alexeev to Bill Kazmaier to me. Now I'm giving you that magical recipe...hard work plus proper nutrition plus time equals strong.

  Steve Pulcinella

  Strong, Workout, Hard Work

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• Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is.

  Dorian Yates

  Motivational, Workout, Bodybuilding

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

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