Bodybuilding can affect your overall health. The intensive weight lifting and strength training that bodybuilders undergo changes their bodies, making them stronger and leaner. Inspirational bodybuilding quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
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Most Famous Bodybuilding Quotes
Don’t have $100.00 shoes and a 10 cent squat. – Louie Simmons
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? – Kai Greene
The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder but don’t nobody want to lift heavy ass weights! – Ronnie Coleman
Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner. – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. – William Arthur Ward
Not only are squats not bad for the knees, every legitimate research study on this subject has shown that squats improve knee stability and therefore help reduce the risk of injuries. – Charles Poliquin
If you’re capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren’t working hard enough. – Dave Tate
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. – Lance Armstrong
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi
Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. – Ed Coan
Rule of thumb: Eat for what you’re going to be doing and not for what you have done. Don’t take in more than you’re willing to burn off. – Lee Haney
When you have a well developed body and you’re confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you. – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. 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
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. – Jesse Owens
Being negative and lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardships, depression, poor health and failure. Be proactive and give a damn to achieve success! – Phil Heath
Sell yourself short on nutrition and you’re selling yourself short on maximizing your physique development. – Ernie Taylor
In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up. – Rich Froning
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. What you need is what I had – belief in yourself! – Branch Warren
Discipline is the bridge between your bodybuilding goals and bodybuilding success. – Felicity Luckey
I don’t diet and exercise. I eat and train. – J.R. Rim
The road to nowhere is paved with excuses. – Mark Bell
Fortunately, there is a solution, and it’s not performing multiple sets of whatever cable Kegel exercise is being pushed as The Answer. Just a little hard, smart, basic work. – Jim Wendler
If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous. – Bret Contreras
The application of consistent, logical effort, over a prolonged period is the key to reaching your physical muscular potential. – Craig Cecil, Supermen: Building Maximum Muscle for a Lifetime
Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren’t prepared to go is what will make you great. – Laurence Shahlaei
Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt – just absolute confidence in yourself. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you. – Jack Lalanne
I’m an extremist, and I hope to be remembered that way: noncompliant and an artist. I do not want to be remembered as a nice guy. I want to be the slayer of Bambi. – David Dearth
There is no such thing as over training, just under nutrition and under sleeping. – The Barbarian brothers
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
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. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
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. – Arnold
Half-reps may build your ego but they also build half a physique. – Craig Cecil, Supermen: Building Maximum Muscle for a Lifetime
Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn’t matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses. – Tom Platz
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand
Your body is a piece of art but it’s always a work in progress. You are never done improving your symmetry and eliminating weak points. – Morgan Aste
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 – Fred Hatfield
If you can’t explain the essence of your program to a three-year old in 60 seconds, its too complicated. I’ve trained with Olympic medal winners and I can assure you, they don’t do anything mysterious, they just do the exercises better than we do. – Maik Weidenbach
The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell. – Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow
There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I’m the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think. – Franco Columbu
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. – George Halas
Some are born strong and others are made strong. – J.R. Rim
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline. – Jack Lalanne
The best activities for your health are pumping and humping. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
I’m not sold on one diet philosophy. I’m sold on whatever will work for you. – Dave Tate
I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom. – Robert Cheeke, Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness: The Complete Guide to Building Your Body on a Plant-Based Diet
All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal. – Dorian Yates
Stimulate don’t annihilate – Lee Haney
Find your balance. – Kayla Kotecki
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Is it 10g of protein more or 10g of protein less, who cares, just get started – Kai Greene
I don’t do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles. – Markus Ruhl
The body is not a reliable friend. – Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat. – Herschel Walker
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning form failure. – Colin Powell
We pay our gym membership for the permission to exercise in the gym, not for the owner(s) of the gym to exercise for us. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
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. – Erik Fankhouser
I’ve always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements. – Kevin Nash
When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it’s ugly looking – and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking. – Joe Gold
Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts. – Dan John
People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year’s resolution to a lifestyle. – John Cena
Working chest, delts, tris, and biceps works approximately 10% of your overall lean body mass. Working hard on deadlifts (bent legged, trap Bar, or sumo) or squatting (not necessarily at the same time) works more like 70% of your musculature at once and sends a strong message to your body to get better at growing now! – Wesley Silveira
