Bodybuilder Quotes

#1. My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

Gary Sheffield

#2. 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

#3. To be a good bodybuilder you must be a good observer.

Serge Nubret

#4. A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.

Serge Nubret

#5. Maybe the one dangerous thing about reading a library's worth of books was the way your imagination got pumped up like a bodybuilder on steroids.

Dean Koontz

#6. Mass is vital to a bodybuilder's physique. But it is the shape and the quality of this mass that win contests.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#7. My father is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, and yes, he was the Terminator! He is also a former Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia, two titles he earned as a champion bodybuilder.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#8. I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

Warren Cuccurullo

#9. 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

#10. That's Manhattan today - all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.

Andrew Vachss

#11. I believe that true success in bodybuilding nutrition comes from some variety in diet. It allows for more creativity, enables a bodybuilder to enjoy diversity, and causes less stress emotionally and mentally compared to a very basic diet for which a bodybuilder will lose enthusiasm for over time.

Robert Cheeke

#12. Not permitted to desire another man's penis, the bodybuilder phallicizes that which he is permitted to desire: his own body.

Mark Simpson

#13. What I'm doing is the thing I want to do. I don't care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#14. I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

Ralph Fiennes

#15. 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.

Tom Platz

#16. Train Like an Athlete, Eat Like a Bodybuilder.

Elliott Hulse

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#18. The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#19. 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

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

Branch Warren

#21. Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.

Ronnie Coleman

#22. Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?

Michael Faraday

#23. To know your future you must know your past

George Santayana

#24. No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

Charley Pride

#25. The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

Marilyn Monroe

#26. Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.

Russell Brand

#27. In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding.

Rick Yancey

#28. Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die,
And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils ...

Jay-Z

#29. What can I say, I'm not a people pleasing person.

Kim Dallmeier

#30. Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

Theodore Roosevelt

#31. The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

Dana Goldstein

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#33. We tend to overlook the simplest of things in our quest for a better life.

Anuja Ghosh

#34. Revenge is as the tigers spring,
Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as real
Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel.

George Gordon Byron

#35. Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.

Lara Logan

#36. Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.

Ashly Lorenzana

#37. When you shift conversations and explore the greatness of your team members, you're likely to be a person who creates opportunities for their strength to show up on the job.

John Yokoyama