Quotes About Weightlifting

#1. 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

#2. The way to have good ideas is to get close to killing yourself. It's like weightlifting. When you lift slightly more than you can handle, you get stronger. In life, when the gun is to your head, you either figure it out, or you die.

Claudia Azula Altucher

#3. Reading is weightlifting for the brain

Tim Green

#4. You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

Bob Hope

#5. Sri Chinmoy is truly unique and special. He has rediscovered the lost art of special strength feats and weightlifting. He has got the biggest, heaviest calf machine in the world. It is a miracle that this man can even support this kind of weight. He is really an inspiration to me.

Bill Pearl

#6. I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, 'cause it's a nice balance to the weightlifting.

Adrian Grenier

#7. The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

Ed Zern

#8. That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

Steve Mariucci

#9. What's not to like about weightlifting?

Neil Gander

#10. Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

Oliver DeMille

#11. In my weightlifting I am trying to show that if you pray and meditate, you can bring to the fore your inner strength. Now, if somebody is really inwardly strong, he is always at peace.

Sri Chinmoy

#12. Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Herb Kelleher

#13. I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies.

Stephen Richards

#14. For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

Shane Black

#15. My support system, in my surgeon, my P.T., my pilates, my weightlifting, everything that I'm doing to make my body and my mind stronger is just, you know, has been on point. So I feel very prepared for the journey to qualify, and the journey to wear the gold medal.

Kerri Walsh

#16. I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.

A. J. Jacobs

#17. I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.

Garrett Neff

#18. 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

#19. Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

Melanie Roach

#20. I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

Andre Dubus III

#21. I don't believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that's indecision.

Paula Poundstone

#22. I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim ... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke.

Eric Idle

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

J.R. Rim

#24. Do not fear what you cannot lift, fear that which can lift you.

Uziel Matos Lima

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

Craig Cecil

#26. 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

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

Craig Cecil

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

Ronnie Coleman

#29. 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

#30. Training records become a barometer of accomplishment and a roadmap for further progress.

Craig Cecil