I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.
You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
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.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
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
The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
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.
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.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.
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