shredded quotes gym

“When I go out there onstage, I want to be more than just a blocky guy who waddles onto the posing platform. I want the girls to feel something.” – Tom Platz

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger 

The longer I train, the less and less shit I do. The less shit I do, the stronger I get. The more I emphasize recovery, the stronger I get.” – Paul Carter

“I’ve made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I’d trust to oil my back.” – Lee Labrada

“Your body, despite the science that says “X number of reps is better for this, Y for that” will get stronger if it is overloaded.” Dr. Ken Leistner

 “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

 “I don’t feel sorry for those who lack the discipline to eat more.” – JM Blakely

“On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.” – Steve Shaw

 “They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I’m living my life, I’m doing it. What are you doing?” – Kai Greene

 “At the end of the day it’s not a weight contest, it’s a visual contest. And it doesn’t matter what you say you weigh, if you don’t look that big then you don’t look that big.” – Dorian Yates

“I never think about losing.” – Lou Ferrigno

“It’s a rare individual who lets themselves be steered by what they feel is their own passion.” – Dave Tate

“That’s a good weight…for a small woman” – Dorian Yates

“Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.” – Mark Rippetoe

 “If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.” – Bret Contreras

“I don’t eat for taste, I eat for function.” – Jay Cutler

“That’s the classic nature of people, though. We’ll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn’t work.” – Martin Rooney

“Remember – If you want to beat the man, you’ve gotta out-eat the man!” – JM Blakely

“Anyone under 200 pounds is a woman.” – Matt Rhodes

“There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.” – Mark Rippetoe

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” – John Wooden

 “I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don’t like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?” – Vince Gironda

“You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up your own mind after you evaluate all the evidence and the logic.” – Mark Rippetoe

“There is no reason to be alive if you can’t do the deadlift!” – Jon Pall Sigmarsson

“There’s more to life than training, but training is what puts more in your life.” – Brooks Kubik

 “Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.” – Dan John

 “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

 “Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.” – Mark Rippetoe

“Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.” – Mike Tyson

 “I’m not the kind of guy who tries to run between the drops. Sometimes you gotta get a little wet to reach your destination” – Erik Fankhouser

 “I’m not sold on one diet philosophy. I’m sold on whatever will work for you.” – Dave Tate

“I don’t do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.” – Markus Ruhl

“The road to nowhere is paved with excuses.” – Mark Bell

“There is no such thing as over training, just under nutrition and under sleeping.” – The Barbarian brothers

“I’m the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.” – Franco Columbu

“A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.” – Jack Dempsey

“Don’t have $100.00 shoes and a 10 cent squat.” – Louie Simmons

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

 “Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero.” – Steve Shaw

“If you’re capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren’t working hard enough.” – Dave Tate

“For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“If a man tells you he doesn’t lift because he doesn’t want to get too bulky, then his testicles have been removed.” – Paul Carter

 “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson

“If your waist measurement begins with a 2…EAT!” – SCStrong

“My old routine was McDonald’s on the way to the gym, coffee during my workout, Burger King and Copenhagen post-workout.” – Dave Tate

“Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.” – Jim Conroy

“Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.” – Ed Coan

“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.” – Mark Rippetoe

“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.”

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” Fitzhugh Dodson

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.” Charles C. Noble

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” Sydney Smith

“Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.” Aristotle

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” Bill Copeland

“Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.” Scott Reed

“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” Benjamin Mays

“Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.” Unknown

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” Ralph Waldo Emereson

“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” Booker T. Washington

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” Bo Jackson

“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.” Les Brown

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” Zig Ziglar

“It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.” Brian Tracy

“Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the stars.” Les Brown

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” C. Malesherbes

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Francis of Assisi

“I also agree with you about the whole paralysis by analysis thing. Yes, you have to be smart in your training, and yes, you have to think it through and plan it — but you also have to chalk your hands, grab the bar and lift it. That’s where so many people go wrong.” – Brooks Kubik

 “You can work technique all you want at 30 and 40 percent of your one-rep max using multiple sets and low reps, but technique is still going to be influenced by what’s on the bar. You may look good at 50 percent but 80 percent may look like shit.” – Dave Tate

 “If your family was captured and you were told you needed to put 100 pounds onto your max squat within two months or your family would be executed, would you squat once per week? Something tells me that you’d start squatting every day.”  – John Broz

 “Arguing about strength training theory is stupid, the reason I came up with 5/3/1 was that I wanted a program that eliminated stupid thoughts from my head and just let me go into the weight room and get shit done. I’ve been training for 20 years, and this is what I’ve learned.” – Jim Wendler

“I always leave the heavy ones for meets. They don’t mean shit in the gym and I’ll end up overtraining. That’s what I used to do when I was younger, but I could get away with it then. Overtraining is really common in powerlifting, just like bodybuilding.” – Ed Coan

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.” — William Temple

 “You may not be there yet, but you are closer than you were yesterday”

“The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” — Swati Sharma

“Increased physical activity enhances positive energy.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” — Jack LaLanne

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford

“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be referenced.” — Marquis de Sade

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” — Ovid

“The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.” — Morihei Ueshiba

 “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” — Maya Angelou