Quotes About Bodybuilding

#1. I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

Michel Houellebecq

#2. As your bodybuilding aims become higher, obviously you have to work harder, until, believe it or not, you are performing from 20-30 sets of both biceps and triceps three workouts per week.

Reg Park

#3. I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

Aaron Patzer

#4. Some people in Hollywood think I'm nuts with this bodybuilding stuff. They'll say, 'You're getting too big. You'll hurt your career.' But they don't understandthat high that comes from a workout, the challenge, and the personal victory.

Joe Piscopo

#5. I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.

Matt McGorry

#6. Bodybuilding is 80% nutrition!

Vince Gironda

#7. Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.

Lee Labrada

#8. I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

Lee Labrada

#9. 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

#10. Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Tom Platz

#12. The reason I have entered into bodybuilding and weightlifting is to inspire everybody to pray and meditate so they can bring to the fore their own inner strength. If everybody brings to the fore his own inner strength, the world will eventually be inundated with peace.

Sri Chinmoy

#13. The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.

Matt McGorry

#14. The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P.

Lee Haney

#15. Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Camille Paglia

#16. Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that would make me feel good about myself.

Lou Ferrigno

#17. Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

Joe Gold

#18. Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#19. The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#20. Bodybuilding isn't 90 minutes in the gym..it's a lifestyle

Lee Priest

#21. In 2010, I was ranked top 50 in the deadlift in three different weight classes, and I won my first natural bodybuilding competition.

Matt McGorry

#22. 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.

Mike Mentzer

#23. Bodybuilding is a hobby. At least for me it is. I've trained since i was 12 or 13 years old. It's a hobby I just have so much fun with it. I get so much enjoyment from it. To have your job as your hobby - life don't get better than that.

Ronnie Coleman

#24. Bodybuilding is not only a sport but first an ART.

Serge Nubret

#25. 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

#26. Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

Lee Labrada

#27. Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.

Kai Greene

#28. Bodybuilding has come to be seen as a means by which boys can turn desire into identification.

Mark Simpson

#29. Someone could have an outstanding comprehension of a bodybuilding diet and a background in nutrition but not have the work ethic and desire to put it into practice. That person won't be as successful as the person who understands some basics and puts them into action regularly.

Robert Cheeke

#30. I'm always positive when it comes to professional bodybuilding, hell I'm Mr. Olympia for God's sake. If I'm number one in our sport and I have a negative attitude then our sport don't need me and I don't need our sport. There are problems and controversy in all sports. That's really unavoidable.

Ronnie Coleman

#31. Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That's why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.

Lou Ferrigno

#32. I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.

Franco Columbu

#33. 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

#34. Vegan bodybuilding is about fueling your body with a vast array of natural, healthy foods, combined with resistance weight training and exercise, providing your body with the appropriate tools to build your physique and achieve your fitness goals.

Robert Cheeke

#35. In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.

Kai Greene

#36. Bodybuilding is not just a sport; it's a way of life. If every aspect of your life is not focused on making the sacrifices necessary to build your best physique, you will ultimately fail and never reach your full potential.

Robert Cheeke

#37. As we get older the muscle structure tends to atrophy at a faster and faster rate. The ideal remedy for this is bodybuilding.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#38. To be successful in bodybuilding you have to be a good observer

Frank Zane

#39. 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

#40. That whole world, the world of bodybuilding to me is fascinating. It's such a unique and interesting culture, and everything about it appeals to me.

Mark Wahlberg

#41. Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#42. If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back.

Shawn Ray

#43. I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

Dave Bautista

#44. From the bodybuilding days on, I learned
that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Lissa Matthews

#46. Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

Mariah Nelson

#47. I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.

Ronnie Coleman

#48. 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

#49. Bodybuilding has been the tool that single-handedly taught a little black boy from the projects to use his mind to achieve success. it taught me to see things for what they can be. I had 17-inch arms; I imagined them to be 24 inches. The power of my mind allowed me to achieve what I imagined.

Kai Greene

#50. Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

Mark Rippetoe

#51. When working out, play your favorite music loudly for an extra boost of energy.

Robert Cheeke

#52. I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win."

Robert Cheeke

#53. The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.

Robert Cheeke

#54. Some are born strong and others are made strong.

J.R. Rim

#55. Be willing to give people a second chance. You'd be surprised how well people respond to another opportunity to succeed.

Robert Cheeke

#56. The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.

Robert Cheeke

#57. But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?

Gary Taubes

#58. Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.

Dorian Yates

#59. Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger

Michael Kirby

#60. Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#61. The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.

Dorian Yates

#62. And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Viktor E. Frankl

#63. A vegan diet is one of the best things you can do for your health and the well being of our planet.

Robert Cheeke

#64. Half-reps may build your ego but they also build half a phyqique.

Craig Cecil

#65. The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell.

Craig Cecil

#66. We are all capable of living each day with a fiery passion and sense of purpose that radiates in our smile and voice.

Robert Cheeke

#67. Some of us are fortunate enough to have known what we wanted to be since the day we were born.

Robert Cheeke

#68. ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES IN LIFE IS ACHIEVING PERSONAL GOALS THAT OTHERS SAID WOULD BE, 'IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN.' BE PROUD OF YOUR SUCCESS AND SHARE YOUR STORY WITH OTHERS.

Robert Cheeke

#69. Take risks that could result in Greatness! Wayne Gretsky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

Robert Cheeke

#70. Every year I want to experience something that makes me say, "this is the best day of my life."

Robert Cheeke

#71. Surround yourself with positive, energetic, successful people and learn from them.

Robert Cheeke

#72. Why bother lifting weights if you aren't following a sound nutritional regimen? Sure, it may be fun, but are you really accomplishing anything?

Robert Cheeke

#73. Work harder than anyone you know, and be lucky enough to be blessed with the genetics it takes.

Nasser El Sonbaty

#74. Your health and well being should be your number one priority, nothing else is more important.

Robert Cheeke

#75. Get over it people, I worked my ass off.

Phil Heath

#76. When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.

Robert Cheeke

#77. Plain free-weight squats work better for me than anything.

Nasser El Sonbaty

#78. It's often a razor's edge you'll walk between coaxing adaptation while avoiding exhaustion (or injury). Master this, and you'll unlock the key to continual progress.

Craig Cecil

#79. 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

#80. On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.

Robert Cheeke

#81. All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.

Dorian Yates

#82. The people who put limits on your abilities, goals, or dreams, may not be the people you want to associate yourself with.

Robert Cheeke

#83. Nothing is as important to muscle growth as good nutrition.

Fredrick Hatfield

#84. Don't be afraid to show emotion. Get excited, get angry, get motivated, laugh, cry, yell, and vent. You will feel so much better after a great release.

Robert Cheeke

#85. People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.

Robert Cheeke

#86. When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time.

Robert Cheeke

#87. Be open to other people's opinions, ideas, and try new things. One of the best ways to learn is to feed off other people's experiences.

Robert Cheeke

#88. Whether you know it or not, you are a role model for somebody. Watch what you say and know that you're responsible for your actions.

Robert Cheeke

#89. Dare to be different. Successful people always stand out.

Robert Cheeke

#90. Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.

Greg Plitt

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

Branch Warren

#92. 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

#93. Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity.

Craig Cecil

#94. Make it a goal to be somebody's hero.

Robert Cheeke

#95. Take time to compliment people every day. Do it sincerely and with no desire to gain anything but a smile in return.

Robert Cheeke

#96. The people who are scared of going on a diet are the people who could benefit the most from one.

Robert Cheeke

#97. Your friends may influence your decisions even more than your parents will.

Robert Cheeke

#98. Just keeping yourself interested and motivated to train over a long period of time is often the biggest hurdle and one of the biggest factors for success in building sustainable muscle.

Craig Cecil

#99. When I accomplish a challenging goal it is one of the most powerful and wonderful feelings in the world.

Robert Cheeke

#100. At least once a month, do something for someone who will never know who did them the friendly favor.

Robert Cheeke