Platz Quotes

#1. I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I'm training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat!

Lee Priest

#2. She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

Kristin Cashore

#3. If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

Max Lucado

#4. The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

E. M. Forster

#5. Lean over. And hold on, baby. I'm gonna fuck you hard.

Nicole Edwards

#6. When I go out there onstage, I want to be more than just a blocky guy who waddles onto the posing platform. I want the girls to feel something.

Tom Platz

#7. Bodybuilding has been my life; if it weren't for bodybuilding, I don't know what I'd be doing. I look at bodybuilding as who I am.

Tom Platz

#8. I will keep you safe, he murmured. He meant it. As long as he was safe, she was safe. But how long would he remain safe?

Sherry Thomas

#9. If you fully believe you will be successful and can visualize yourself being successful, you will succeed

Tom Platz

#10. My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

Groucho Marx

#11. But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

Julian Barnes

#12. The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

Peter Brook

#13. Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

George Herbert

#14. The air and earth had lived in response to his dreams and desires. ... [E]ven today ... this world belonged to him as much as to any owners of these houses and gardens.

Hermann Hesse

#15. The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

Tom Platz

#16. It's nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

Lana Del Rey

#17. I never thought I would -- or could-- write a novel. Believe me, it is much easier to say 'I should write a book someday' than it is to actually do it.

Leinad Platz

#18. 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

#19. If I wait for my house or my life to be perfect before inviting someone into it, I might never let anyone come through the door.

Lisa-Jo Baker

#20. When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent.

Tom Platz

#21. 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

#22. I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.

Tom Platz