Body Building Quotes

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Strength, Fitness, Bodybuilding

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• Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

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• Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Strength, Sports, Fitness

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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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• 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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• For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Life, Inspiring, Workout

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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  The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else 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.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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• Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Sports, Bodybuilding, Training

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• I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

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• There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

  Henry Rollins

  Fighting, Bodybuilding, Iron Will

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• No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

  Socrates

  Workout, Bad Ass, Men

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• Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Workout, Believe

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• The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Bodybuilding, Bad Ass

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

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• That's a good weight...for a small woman

  Dorian Yates

  Motivational, Workout, Bodybuilding

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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 body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.

  Paul Virilio

  Sex, Body, Building

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Winning, Body

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• In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.

  Robert Bly

  Men, Emotional, Discipline

  "Iron John: A Book About Men". Book by Robert Bly, 1990.

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• I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.

  Douglas Coupland

  Writing, Animal, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle

  Owen Hart

  Motivational, Wrestling, Talking

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• Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

  Bernadette Peters

  Singing, Body, Lessons

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• It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Jewels, Ignorant, Would Be

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