Mike Mentzer Quotes

#1. A sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification

John Owen

#2. The only one you can accurately compare yourself to is you!

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#3. Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.

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#4. History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.

Breyten Breytenbach

#5. Abdicating-Decision-Making

Karen Kingston

#6. You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into motion. It is the body itself, of course, that produces growth; but it does so only during a sufficient rest period.

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#7. One cannot actualize his goals until he visualizes them clearly in the minds eye

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#8. The theory of high-intensity, anaerobic, bodybuilding exercise is not true because I or anyone else, no matter how many might agree, say it is true. It is the fact that the logic of the theory is unassailable which makes it true.

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#9. Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake

Mike Mentzer

#10. In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd.

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#11. I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.

Masa Takayama

#12. It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.

Mike Mentzer

#13. Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.

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#14. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw