Bodybuilder Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• I idolized all of the bodybuilders who came from that old-school hardcore era. Those guys didn't need any fancy equipment; they trained with intensity and focus, regardless of the gym or other limitations. These guys could do presses with pails full of cement and still get a great workout.

  Mike Matarazzo

  Workout, School, Focus

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• I don't have any sexual hang-ups, but I'm sure there are bodybuilders who have trouble with sex, and obviously the body building hasn't helped.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sex, Body, Trouble

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

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• I'm a competitive bodybuilder; I'm not training just to be healthy. Ninety-five percent of the people training with weights are into this health thing, and it's a different mentality entirely.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  People, Healthy, Training

  Source: daggy.name

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• Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Size

  Source: daggy.name

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• I've never really considered myself as being the best bodybuilder. I always try to let the people decide that. I just try to do the best I can do at whatever it is that I'm doing.

  Ronnie Coleman

  People, Trying, Being The Best

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• I'd like to get to a point where I am not considered natural by myself. When I say that I mean that I don't want to fit within the guidelines of what other people feel it is to be natural. If people feel that natural bodybuilders usually are the ones who lack legs or have poor body parts or don't train very hard or aren't very strong or aren't very intense, if that's your perception of what a natural bodybuilder is, then that's not what I want to be.

  Kai Greene

  Strong, Mean, People

  Source: www.awesome-body.club

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• I remember one guy, Reg Park, a British bodybuilder, who entered Mr Universe when he was very young. But he won it and continued to win it a second and third time. So, he was my idol. I read everything about Reg Park and followed his footsteps and trained like him. I said if he could make it, I could make it. It was a blueprint, basically, for how to get there, to win the championships.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Idols, Guy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Tombstone, Book, Coffee

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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• There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.

  Tim Ferriss

  Views, Doctors, Interesting

  "Tim Ferriss Wants to Hack Your Body". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• The good bodybuilders have the same mind ... that a sculptor has. If you analyze it, you look in the mirror and you say, okay, I need a bit more deltoids ... so that the proportion's right, and ... you exercise and put those deltoids on, whereas an artist would just slap on some clay on each side.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Exercise, Artist, Mirrors

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• Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s - the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train - there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Party, California

  "The Terminator As Predator? A Look at Arnold on Sex, Abuse, Drugs, & Women". www.democracynow.org. August 29, 2003.

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• I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.

  Branch Warren

  Bodybuilding, Average, Training

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• Bodybuilders and fitness people have been using chiropractic very extensively in order to stay healthy and fit. I found it was better to go to a chiropractor before you get injured. We are a perfect team, the world of fitness and the world of chiropractors.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Team, Order, People

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• When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Reality, Years, Champion

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I certainly don't agree with the bodybuilders who say you can get big forearms just by squeezing the dumbbell handles when doing curls. In a few cases this may be true, but those guys would build big forearms by merely eating eggs in the morning. Most bodybuilders, myself included, have to work very hard for any kind of meaningful forearm development.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Meaningful, Morning, Eggs

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• Bodybuilders and fitness people have been using, very extensively, chiropractors in order to stay healthy and fit. Whenever I had a little problem with my body, I always ran to one of my dear friends, Dr Franco Columbo, he was always right there with the adjustments. This is how I found out the best way of going, is to use chiropractors, not only after injuries , but also before injury.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Order, People, Healthy

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• What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Athlete, Player, Tennis

  Source: daggy.name

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• Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Years, World, Success In Life

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• Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Father, Bad Relationship, Want

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• When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder.

  Branch Warren

  Years, Wanted

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• I'm always the guy on tour that tries to get guys chatting and a lot of banter back and forth so I definitely feel that a lot of bodybuilders have that comedic side in them, they're just a little bit more introverted.

  Phil Heath

  Guy, Trying, Littles

  Source: monstersupplements.com

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• Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Want

  "Ronnie Coleman: The Unbelievable!". DVD, 2005.

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• Most people are just fat and because most bodybuilders juice, they can get away with eating what they want and just monitoring calories. It's a horrible misconception and often sends people down a path of fat gain that might ruin their motivation and drive. Fat cells never go away once created.

  Scott Herman

  Motivation, Cells, People

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• I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fighting, Gay, People

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

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