Body Builder Quotes

• 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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• 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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• It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting ready to go somewhere. Can you tell me that greasing your body up and posing in front of a mirror is masculine? A bodybuilder puts strength secondary to his physique, whereas the lifter puts strength foremost because it is more masculine to do so.

  Doug Hepburn

  Workout, Bodybuilding, Mirrors

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• The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Brain, Body

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• I'm a body builder, but I don't use weights. I use snacks. It's kind of a different building process.

  Demetri Martin

  Snacks, Different, Use

  Twitter post from May 13, 2011

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• I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.

  Tommy Chong

  Optimistic, Eye, Looks

  The Beyond Chronic Interview, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.

  Rebecca Mader

  Dad, Thank God, Body

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

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• When I played basketball, I spent hours On the court practicing. When i became a body-builder, I was in the gym all the time. Like most beginners, I didn't really know what I was doing, but the more I did it, the more I loved it. I guess you could say I was a gym rat. Seeing my body change made me come back for more.

  Phil Heath

  Basketball, Bodybuilding, Gym Rats

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• As a vegan body-builder I want to show others that it is possible to gain significant muscle and strength on a vegan diet and I want to inspire others to follow this lifestyle. I love being vegan and knowing that I am having a positive impact on our society.

  Robert Cheeke

  Love Is, Impact, Knowing

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.216, Book Publishing Company

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• I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Funny Things, Ideas, Brain

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• I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I was 16 or something crazy like that for a short period of time. So, the gym is quite familiar and I know what I'm doing there.

  Guy Pearce

  Crazy, Work Out, Competition

  Source: collider.com

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out against gay marriage. He said marriage is a sacred union between a groupie and any number of body builders.

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Numbers, Sacred

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• Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.

  David Letterman

  Running, Body, Littles

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• Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Years, California

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