Bodybuilding Motivation Quotes

And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try my technique. Just put it to your personality, put it to yourself, and you develop your workout. Cause those books and things, those are other people's gimmicks and hypes. Build your own gimmick and hype, and that'll make you a better powerlifter. Not just doin' it like James does it, cause if you try to fly off the building like superman you'll be out there in the middle of the street.

I'm not the kind of guy who tries to run between the drops. Sometimes you gotta get a little wet to reach your destination

Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift

There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?

On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.

When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.

I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

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

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

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.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

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

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.

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.

Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete - or businessperson - enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you're squatting 500 for reps and you can't get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that's set one.

I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.

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

Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

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

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.

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

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

If you don't like what you see, stop looking.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

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.

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.

If you think you can't, you're right.

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.