Rippetoe Squat Quotes

#1. I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.

Mark Rippetoe

#2. God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.

Mark Rippetoe

#4. A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.

Mark Rippetoe

#5. Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.

Kenneth Boa

#6. The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

R.C. Sproul

#7. Not hope that he would be rescued
that was gone. But hope in his knowledge. Hope in the fact that he could learn and survive and take care of himself. Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of though hope.

Gary Paulsen

#8. The full-range-of-m otion exercise known as the squat is the single most useful exercise in the weight room, and our most valuable tool for building strength, power, and size.

Mark Rippetoe

#9. I tend to get starstruck with sports people. I was on a chat show with retired Scottish footballer Denis Law and I just lost it and couldn't talk to him.

Martin Shaw

#10. Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.

Stanley Schmidt

#11. True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

#12. A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.

Mark Rippetoe

#13. Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!

Mark Rippetoe

#14. Never get close to your enemies, you might start liking them.

Cristian L. Martinez

#15. Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glipmses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.

Frederick Buechner

#16. I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

Mark Rippetoe

#17. I don't like green Christmases. They're not green - they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

Lucy Maud Montgomery