Top 40 Ronnie Coleman Quotes
#1. A day in the life of Ronnie Coleman mainly consists of eating,
training or sleeping.
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#4. I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to do. But I always kept the faith and always worked hard on my goals and I finally found out on Sept. 25, 1998, why I was put here - (God) called me here to be Mr. Olympia.
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#5. My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can't control how they're going to look. I can only control how I look.
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#6. Hating the cool kids takes an awful lot of energy, and I'd given up on it a long time ago.
John Green
#7. I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.
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#8. It is important to have people believe in you. With this support, what you can achieve is limitless.
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#10. Hard work and training. There's no secret formula.
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#11. 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.
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#12. The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosby
#13. God is going to use me to reach the young people, I don't know how, I don't know when.
Beth Nimmo
#14. The more I have to do, the better off I am. I'm not really one to sit around and relax and take it easy. I always like having something to do. Even though I'm not competing, I'm going to be making a lot of appearances, doing guest posings and seminars.
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#15. If you take a hammer and hit something over and over again, it's gonna be destroyed. I don't wanna destroy my body cause I want my body to last me as long as it possible can. If you train hard and push it everyday, your body is going to wear out. So I give my body time to recover.
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#16. Training has always been a hobby, and my whole life has revolved around training. It's something I truly love doing. I wanna do what I wanna do and this is something I wrestled with, because I have to make many sacrifices to do what I wanna do.
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#17. I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.
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#18. I had an unfortunate habit of allowing my anger to blind me. An extremely unfortunate habit. Glate knew that, and he knew how to stop me from doing something stupid. He was my sense of reality in a world thrown off balance. But he wasn't here now.
Nicole Sobon
#19. 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.
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#20. I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.
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#21. What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?
Idries Shah
#23. If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics ... but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.
Philip Pullman
#24. Let your dreams be bigger than your fears,
your actions louder than your words,
and your faith stronger than your feelings
Nicky Gumbel
#26. I know that in order for something to work for me it has to be extremely powerful.
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#27. Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn't mean you should back off your triceps workouts.
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#28. If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
Sophocles
#29. Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So, if you're lacking, start squatting!
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#30. The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.
Edward Snowden
#31. I've been training so long, its second nature to push myself to the limit.
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#32. Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size.
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#33. Your body produces a lot less testosterone each and every single year no matter who you are. We are all human, nobody is super human.
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#35. I always train heavy and it worked well for me. I always train heavy and put on size for a competition. Most people would be worried about an injury but if you're gonna worry about it so much, it's gonna happen anyway.
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#36. Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.
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#37. We are always in a constant state of conspiracies,
at least thats what they keep telling us ...
Faith Brashear
#38. Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with a guy with muscles. I get more people that know me than anything.
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#39. I was a big Who fan when I was 15, 16 years old, and I used to go watch them play at the Marquee Club in London as often as I could.
Chris Squire
#40. 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.
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