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No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training
Sep 17, 2025
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.
You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
The harder you work, the luckier you become.
The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.
My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
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.
And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
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 worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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.
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
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.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.
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.'
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
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.
Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.
If you think you can't, you're right.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.