quotations about bodybuilding
The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength.
HENRY ROLLINS
Details Magazine, January 1993
When you hit failure, your workout has just begun.
RONNIE COLEMAN
attributed, Planet of Success, December 12, 2018
Training records become a barometer of accomplishment and a roadmap for further progress.
SAMUEL WILSON FUSSELL
Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder
Bodybuilding is like winter; no matter how cold you get, you can always add another layer of clothing. Classic physique is like summer; there's a point where you can't take off any more clothes and just have to suffer through the heat.
RON PARTLOW
"Genetics Matter"
The weight training part of bodybuilding is like the engine of a car. As you get a bigger engine the better the car gets. However, for the engine to run it needs petrol (gas as you call it in the states). Just the same as bodybuilding we need food for us to function and get energy. Our food needs to be healthy though.
AJ
"The Top 10 Needs In Bodybuilding", Bodybuilding, January 8, 2019
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self-portrait into a masterpiece.
KAI GREENE
attributed, Planet of Success, December 12, 2018
Bodybuilding is a never-ending process--a journey and not a destination.
RON HARRIS
Real Bodybuilding: Muscle Truth from 25 Years in the Trenches
There is no such thing as over training, just under nutrition and under sleeping.
BARBARIAN BROTHERS
attributed, Planet of Success, December 12, 2018
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
MORIHEI UESHIBA
attributed, Planet of Success, December 12, 2018
Bodybuilding is a sport of recovering from weight training, not just weight training, so you need to ensure you are recovering as much as possible between sessions.
DEREK TRESIZE & MARCELLA TORRES
The Vegan Muscle & Fitness Guide to Bodybuilding Competitions
Blood, sweat and respect. First two you give, last one you earn.
DWAYNE JOHNSON
attributed, "The Best Bodybuilding Quotes of All Time", Muscle & Fitness
Training is so difficult when you have to and so easy when you want to.
FELICITY LUCKEY
attributed, Great Minds Think It
I don't have any weak points. I had weak points three years ago, but my main thing in mind is, my goal always was, to even out everything to the point ... that everything is perfect. Which means if I want to increase one muscle a half inch, the rest of the body has to increase. I would never make one muscle increase or decrease, because everything fits together now.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Pumping Iron
Bodybuilding is like the race between the hare and the tortoise. Ultimately, determination and endurance over a lond period of time can win out over a quick start and headlong sprint for the finish line.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
To me, bodybuilding is fascinating because it's based on the ultimate dichotomy: gaining size and getting shredded at the same time. These shouldn't mix, right? But they do.
JACOB WILSON
"Mass Class Training: The Fundamentals Of Muscle Growth", Bodybuilding, March 11, 2015
If you're capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren't working hard enough.
DAVE TATE
attributed, Generation Iron, May 30, 2014
The gym was the one place I had control. I didn't have to speak, I didn't have to listen. I just had to push or pull. It was so much simpler, so much more satisfying than life outside.
SAMUEL WILSON FUSSELL
Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder
I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.
STEVE REEVES
attributed, natbod
A balanced healthy diet has always given me best results because not only am I supplying my body with clean foods for muscle growth but my body is healthy and running at it's optimum, so all the processes that go on within my cells are happening more efficiently and at a faster rate. Just like giving a performance car the best oils and fuels -- it's going to run at its optimum and get the best performance.
DAVID RYLAH
interview, BodyBuilding, April 18, 2019
Bodybuilders have to realize that they can have very good body parts but it takes all the body-parts to be good together to make a balanced physique.
NASSER EL SONBATY
interview, BodyBuilding, December 3, 2018