Squat Quotes - Page 2

• I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Idiot, Minutes, Teach

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• squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place

  Nora Roberts

  People, Needs, Firsts

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.380, Penguin

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• The Packers have lots of owners nobody knows instead of one owner who doesnt know squat.

  Jim McMahon

  Packers, Owners, Nobody Knows

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• I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I'm training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat!

  Lee Priest

  Guy, Training, Curls

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• Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Rain, Mean

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.289, Faber & Faber

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• If you use big words, no one will know you aren't doing jack squat.

  Stephen Colbert

  Use, Bigs, Knows

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• You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Believe, Brain, Clue

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• We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

  Clive Barker

  Life, Believe, Health

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Mar 06, 2013

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• If you accuse me of being on drugs because I'm very focused on what I do, because I'm very serious, because I'm very hungry, because I can squat 800 lbs, because I can bench 500 lbs, because I can press 315 behind my neck, and if these things don't fit under what you consider to be natural, then I don't want to be a natural. I don't want to be what you depict as a natural. I want to define myself for me.

  Kai Greene

  Drug, Benches, Want

  Source: www.awesome-body.club

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• People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Ugly Things, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.

  Aaron Tippin

  Challenges, Benches, Pounds

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• A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Spiritual, Strong, Reality

  "Starting Strength". Book by Mark Rippetoe, www.newyorker.com. 2005.

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• For young males that weigh between 150-200 lbs., deadlifts can move up 15-20 lbs. per workout, squats 10-15 lbs., with continued steady progress for 3-4 weeks before slowing down to half that rate. Bench presses, presses, and cleans can move up 5-10 lbs. per workout, with progress on these exercises slowing down to 2.5-5 lbs. per workout after only 2-3 weeks. Young women make progress on the squat and the deadlift at about the same rate, adjusted for bodyweight, but much slower on the press, the bench press, cleans, and assistance exercises.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Workout, Moving, Exercise

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• I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Car, Reason, Racks

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• Sorry, I didn't squat and grease myself and be naked next to Kim Lard-ashian. I mean, no matter what you do - excuse me - you can never compete with her. You can win the Nobel Peace Prize and you can't compete with Kim Lard-ashian's ass.

  Judy Tenuta

  Sorry, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Dancing is really a way of working out and it can actually be fun. In dancing there might be a certain dance move that requires you to do a squat. Certain dance moves will require you to move your core. That's what people don't understand.

  Teyana

  Fun, Moving, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fun, Reading, Years

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. February 3, 1999.

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• My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.

  Lena Dunham

  Grandmother, Body Types, Shapes

  "The Conversation With Actor/Writer/Director/Producer (And Runner) Lena Dunham". Interview with Allison Glock, espn.go.com. September 21, 2015.

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• Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

  Deepak Chopra

  Play, Judging, Faults

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.302, Harmony

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• The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Men

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.65

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• Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.

  Ken Blanchard

  Mean, Good Thoughts

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• What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city where civilization sort of ended, and therefore young people could live cheaply, or open nightclubs or art galleries, or even squat. That fringe moved out to New Jersey and Brooklyn. The whole idea of the metropolis is the centralization of like-minded souls, and when the central real estate becomes too expensive, the dreamers, the young poets, and the artists will go elsewhere.

  Jay McInerney

  Art, Real, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know my telephone number or anything like that, but when I do have to make a call, I just pull my body over to the side and squat. I don't want to be one of those people who are on their phone all the time.

  Amy Sedaris

  People

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• We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.

  Rumi

  Dream, Glasses, Sea

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• And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Clouds, Sky, Feet

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