Bodybuilder Quotes

• My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Workout, Mean, Bad Ass

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• The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Fitness, Motivational Sports

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

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• After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

  Tom Platz

  Workout, Emotional, Artist

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• You've got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've got to get into a zone. You know you're in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away 'cause they see the fire. You've got to be all business.

  Mike Matarazzo

  Workout, Block, Eye

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  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

  Henry Rollins

  Strength, Running, Workout

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.290, Villard

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• Far too many bodybuilders spend too much time exercising the smaller muscle groups such as the biceps at the expense of the larger muscle groups such as the thighs, and then they wonder why it is that they never make gains in overall size and strength.

  Reg Park

  Workout, Exercise, Groups

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• I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Life and taxes" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 09, 2006.

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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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• I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Live Life, Musician

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• I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Guy, Weight, Bigs

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• Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

  Joe Gold

  Bodybuilding, Gold, Firsts

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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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• To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men

  Fredrick Hatfield

  Song, Strong, Men

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• I don't care what other people think.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera Interview JACKASS 3D". Press conference, collider.com. October 12, 2010.

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• You guys that worry about eating clean are actually merely bodybuilders looking for justification for your obsession with abs. You cannot get big and strong on 3000 kcal/day. And you cannot eat 7000/day and eat perfectly “clean”.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Strong, Worry, Guy

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• A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.

  Serge Nubret

  Motivational, Sports, Bodybuilding

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• What I'm doing is the thing I want to do. I don't care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.

  Janel Parrish

  Class, Hiking, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that true success in bodybuilding nutrition comes from some variety in diet. It allows for more creativity, enables a bodybuilder to enjoy diversity, and causes less stress emotionally and mentally compared to a very basic diet for which a bodybuilder will lose enthusiasm for over time.

  Robert Cheeke

  Stress, Believe, Creativity

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.66, Book Publishing Company

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• Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake

  Mike Mentzer

  Giving Up, Mistake, Practice

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• To be a good bodybuilder you must be a good observer.

  Serge Nubret

  Observers

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