Top 94 Squat Quotes
#1. I found my destination a few miles outside Swelling: a lone, squat, brown bar called The Inn of the Line...The place looked like a dive. Maybe even a plunge. Hell, it was a drowning accident.
Elliott James
#2. But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.
Lois Lowry
#3. I rent a small brick bungalow within a loop of other small brick bungalows, all of which squat on a massive bluff overlooking the former stockyards of Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas. There's a difference.
Gillian Flynn
#4. You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.
Jeff Hawkins
#5. I never thought I'd get married," I told Boy as he poured for us. Scotch spilled into the squat glasses with reassuring lapping noises. "I should have left well enough alone." "You don't need to explain.
Paula McLain
#6. Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.
Larry Flynt
#7. We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
Larry Kramer
#8. When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.
Adam Young
#9. The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.
Charles Dickens
#10. And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.
Kristin Hannah
#11. Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
Jack Horner
#12. You're a trouble-maker. What race do you belong to, anyhow?' 'The human race,' I said. 'I come from the womb and I'm bound for the tomb, the same as you, the same as King George the Six, the same as Johnny Squat.
Joseph Mitchell
#13. I just find it funny what people will comment on, I try to not pay that much attention to it, but the crazy part is that if I'm doing a squat and I have an action photo, they're like, "Oh your form is off!" And I'm like, are you kidding? I'm still at the gym and you're not!
Khloe Kardashian
#14. I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.
Mark Rippetoe
#15. Sending them was like sending a probe to Mars - he thought of its insect legs folding up into a squat, its motorized head casting this way and that. You could program it to do what you wanted, but it was no replacement for going there yourself and flinging your fingers into the red sand.
Jennifer DuBois
#16. The day I need a friend like you, I'll just have myself a little squat and shit one out.
J.A. Huss
#17. As I make a final right-hand turn onto our street, my GPS informs me that I've "reached my destination". "My destination," I laugh aloud to myself. My GPS doesn't know squat.
Colleen Hoover
#18. I can squat 405. I'm proud of that - that's one of my favorites.
Bryce Harper
#20. Squat 300 times a day, you're going to give birth quickly.
Ina May Gaskin
#21. The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#22. Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison
Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
Philip Larkin
#23. I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.
Joe Manganiello
#25. Most "squat" shoes (and I mean the ones that are designed for lifters_ have a slight heal to them. This is great if you have strong quads and use your legs to push the weight, but if you want to get your hamstrings and hips (which are stronger) involved, you will want a flat sole.
Joe "Ironman" Norman
#26. 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
#27. Words can't fix my life.
Words can't give me a family.
Words can't do jack.
You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#29. I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
Howard Nemerov
#30. Once you can squat with 180 kilograms, your arms and shoulders will come along much more receptively ... If you want big arms and shoulders, your first priority is to be sure that your leg/hip/back structure is growing and becoming powerful
Stuart McRobert
#31. Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
Carolyn Murphy
#32. 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
#33. We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.
Clive Barker
#34. It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
Michel De Montaigne
#35. She'd never been any kind of camper, never had been good at relieving a full bladder on a whim. Never had quite figured out that squat; it seemed like she'd always wet her right foot.
Robyn Carr
#37. I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.
Dolly Parton
#38. I don't necessarily need 400 pounds on my back in the squat rack, and then take a picture of myself and send it out to my Twitter followers, 'Part of the 400 pound club today.'
Ryan Reynolds
#39. At last my liaison pulled up before a squat structure of poured concrete buttressed with steel, bleak and featureless, like a sepulcher for people who didn't believe in an afterlife.
James K. Morrow
#40. Mike Rondeau, a tall drink of a man sloshed into a squat glass, with a belt that could double as a lasso and a volume of ambitious lies that he called his life, came in the door and laughed.
Daniel Woodrell
#41. My stepmother was no beauty. She was round and squat with a face not unlike a potato that had been scrubbed.
Sally Gardner
#42. A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.
Aldous Huxley
#43. Everybody in America was supposed to grab whatever he could and hold on to it. Some Americans were very good at grabbing and holding, were fabulously well-to-do. Others couldn't get their hands on doodley-squat. Dwayne
Kurt Vonnegut
#44. I can tell you squat about Islamism. But I know a lot about Al Quaeda, and they need to burn in hell.
Frank Miller
#45. If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.
Dave Grohl
#46. He wore a heavy black moustache and the backs of his hands on the rail were matted with black hair. Bond guessed that hair covered most of his squat body. Naked, Bond supposed, he would be an obscene object.
Ian Fleming
#47. Squat, swarthy and powerful, the bandit was a mixture of Comanche and Comanchero bloods, revealing the most sadistic and savage traits of both.
Joe Millard
#48. At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.
Mitch Albom
#49. 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
#50. A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat.
David Baldacci
#51. I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H.P. Lovecraft
#52. Squat, thick-bodied, swarthy, with the unmistakable stamp of Indian blood on his features, he was the dread Apachito himself- Mister Fifteen Thousand Dollars, in the language of the bounty hunting trade.
Joe Millard
#53. If you squat on a path, you'll get boils on your backside.
Nancy Farmer
#55. Russia! Russia ... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
Nikolai Gogol
#56. It was passed on by the hook-nosed herdsmen of the grasslands, from the dwellers in tents to the dwellers in the squat stone cities where kings with curled blueblack beards worshipped round-bellied gods with curious rites.
Robert E. Howard
#57. He is a squat, balding, flabby man, but still a man. He does not judge me.
Margaret Atwood
#58. As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.
Fred Couples
#59. I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
Bob Hawke
#60. Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.
Cecily White
#61. Don't let fear inside your house, Luca." He tapped the side of his head. "That's valuable real estate, and fear will try to squat without paying.
Sean Platt
#62. If you use big words, no one will know you aren't doing jack squat.
Stephen Colbert
#63. They were short and squat and had too many limbs, and he had no idea what either of them were. But they looked suspicious.
Karen Chance
#64. He bit back a weary sigh and tried to remember strangling her would solve squat.
Kelly Moran
#65. 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
#66. A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
Aldous Huxley
#67. Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.
H.P. Lovecraft
#68. Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.
Robert Benton
#69. What's the matter? Afraid to come over here and fight a girl?"
"You are no girl," one of the soldiers yells.
"Now that is downright insulting." I squat down and pull daggers from my Doc Martens. "Looks like I'll have to defend my honor.
Tera Lynn Childs
#70. But your own tears blind you to mine.
I am not neglectful of friendship,
but we two squat in the same coracle,
we are both swamped by the same stormy waters,
I have not the gifts of a happy man ... Often enough.
Catullus
#71. You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.
Aaron Tippin
#72. In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once.
Paul Stamets
#73. On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.
Steve Shaw
#74. The houses were squat and almost identical and each one had a square of grass in front of it like a dog gripping a stolen steak.
Flannery O'Connor
#75. Roger and I would squat in the heavily scented shade of the myrtle bushes and watch the array of creatures that passed us; at certain times of the day the branches were as busy as the main street of a town.
Gerald Durrell
#76. The Packers have lots of owners nobody knows instead of one owner who doesn't know squat.
Jim McMahon
#77. 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
#78. To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!
Homer
#79. For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.
Rupert Brooke
#80. Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.
Henry Rollins
#81. When life hands you lemons - SQUAT! Squats make everything better. And if squats don't, bacon will
Anna Lee
#82. When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.
Shawn Johnson
#83. Take a close look at a squat, barbell, or bodyweight - it makes no difference. Both the quadriceps and the hamstrings are working toward the common goal of standing up. The quads are extending the knees, and the hammies are extending the hips.
Pavel Tsatsouline
#84. How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500Lbs off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700Lbs up? Squat down to the floor and stand back up? So what if your eyes are bloodshot! So what if your bones feel like snapping! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!
Kai Greene
#85. There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.
Mark Rippetoe
#86. I only judge people by the depth of their squat.
Dan John
#87. Ree sat chilled inside her squat tent. To occupy her mind, she decided to name all the Miltons: Thump, Blond, Catfish, Spider, Whoop, Rooster, Scrap ... Lefty, Dog, Punch, Pinkeye, Momsy ... Cotton, Hog-jaw, Ten Penny, Peashot ...
Daniel Woodrell
#89. Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Seamus Heaney
#90. My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.
Lena Dunham
#91. There were at least four people who realized that Inspector Stanislaus Oates, only lately promoted to the Big Five, was being followed down High Holborn by the short, squat, shabby man who yet bore the elusive air of a forgotten culture about him.
Margery Allingham
#93. You ain't no woodstove; you can't just squat in the middle of my house and stew.
Catherynne M Valente
#94. [Gina] I got them Bad Old Cosmic C-Word Blues Again.
[Mark] What does 'c-word' mean?
[Gina] It means continuing to believe even when you don't feel it. Not letting go even when you can't find squat to hold onto. Going all the way from the beginning to the end.
Pat Cadigan