Body Building Quotes

Those I saved on my computer:

“Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.”
~ Earl of Derby
This is my personal favorite :smiley:

“Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.”
~ English Proverb

“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.”
~ Hippocrates

“The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!”
(don’t know)

“Sell yourself short on nutrition and you’re selling yourself short on maximizing your physique development.”
~ Ernie Taylor, IFBB Pro

“Success in anything seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit. They hang on after others have let go”.
(don’t know)

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

“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”

“People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage others.”
~ Anonymous

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”
~ Spanish Proverb

“If you do not change what you’re doing today, your tomorrow will be no different than yesterday.”
~ Unknown

“Bad excuses are worse than none.”
~ Thomas Fuller

“If we are to follow in the footsteps of someone great we must first move our feet.”
~ Unknown

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
~ Japanese proverb

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
~ Mark Twain

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
~ La Rochefoucauld

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
~ Calvin Coolidge

[quote]GathCity wrote:
Ghost22 wrote:
Do what you’ve always done and you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

Don’t remember who said it.

Bill Philips said that, as the definition to insanity. Not sure if he made it up though. [/quote]

He just rewrote an Einstein quote.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

"Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenished.?

Buddha

It took all the self restraint I had, but everyone was cracking up inside.

Plus I was playing well and we were losing and I hate fucking losing.

[quote]PGJ wrote:

Coach: “your hands are cold? your hands are cold? why dont you stick em up your ass and sniff em! because you smell like a rat’s ass!”

I was trying so hard not to laugh but with the hand gestures and look on his face, it was funny as shit.

A

How did you not laugh!!??? I’m laughing my ass off right now. Classic. That is one of the funniest insults I’ve ever heard.
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Whoa, I ask for one quote and you are taking over my thread!! Haha, those are some really good ones.

AA

[quote]MR1 wrote:
Those I saved on my computer:

“Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.”
~ Earl of Derby
This is my personal favorite :smiley:

“Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.”
~ English Proverb

“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.”
~ Hippocrates

“The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!”
(don’t know)

“Sell yourself short on nutrition and you’re selling yourself short on maximizing your physique development.”
~ Ernie Taylor, IFBB Pro

“Success in anything seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit. They hang on after others have let go”.
(don’t know)

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

“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”

“People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage others.”
~ Anonymous

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”
~ Spanish Proverb

“If you do not change what you’re doing today, your tomorrow will be no different than yesterday.”
~ Unknown

“Bad excuses are worse than none.”
~ Thomas Fuller

“If we are to follow in the footsteps of someone great we must first move our feet.”
~ Unknown

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
~ Japanese proverb

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
~ Mark Twain

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
~ La Rochefoucauld

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
~ Calvin Coolidge

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I couldn’t choose AA, I like them all :smiley:

Feels weird writing in English when we have been talking in Dutch, haha. Me and IamMarquos were doing the same thign for a while but we cant post in Dutch…

[quote]MR1 wrote:
I couldn’t choose AA, I like them all :D[/quote]

?What the fuck are you looking at?? Those are the words that rush to the forefront of my mind every time I?m out eating in public. Whether its a 10 egg white omelet in a cafeteria, a pyramid of burgers at MickeyD?s or the protein shake I?d bring to class in college, it is quite obvious that regular folks have a problem with eaters and consequently have issues with bodybuilders. I think their scorn is the result of an underlying fear.

That fear is rooted in the fact that if we were stranded on a deserted island and somehow were caught in a ?Lord of the Flies? scenario, they know that they?d be the first to get roasted over an open flame and eaten. It gets no more basic or primal than that. I?ve gotta admit, however, that I have my own issues with food as well. I hate to be seen out in public buying or eating junk food, for some reason I have attached a certain amount of unavoidable shame to the consumption of trash in the presence of normal people–they might presume that we are in some way alike. Also, I detest seeing uneaten food left on the plate. It might be my blue-collar roots, but I don?t like to see food go to waste. Remember, there are starving children in Africa and skinny guys at your gym, so pretty please, with sugar on top, clean your fucking plates.

G Diesel

“Shut up and SQUAT.” is a good one. Dunno who came up with it though.

“Pain is weakness leaving the body.” is on some of the U.S. marines’ shirts that I’ve seen.

“Push past the pain barrier.” from Ahnuld (don’t think those are the exact words; there’s something about being a champion in there too, etc.)!

Also the one where he says he feels like he’s cumming all day from the pump…LOL! That one cracked me up!

I love these bits…

From “Why I train legs” by Machine
I start to get edgy three days before I train legs. It’s like there’s a giant clock ticking in my head. It lasts right up until I enter the weight room on reckoning day. That ticking turns into a head-splitting air raid siren, and when that happens all I see are people running for cover as my resentment builds?.

?Hell, one day a woman and her husband came up to me after a set. I was ten shades of white and covered in sweat. She said, “Why do you do this to yourself?” I said to her, “I hope your not expecting some bullshit poetry class answer to that.” After gulping down some air, I finished by saying, “I do it because I was born to and when I load these plates onto this bar something irresistible comes alive in me.”

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

– Henry David Thoreau

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

“Through strength, learn gentleness. Through gentleness, strength will prevail.”

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

Reminds me that I can’t be an a-hole to people just because I may be stronger than them. I believe the same could be said about any attribute. Everyone has something that they bring to the table.

Here’s a famous quote from Mista Olympia"

“Ain’t nothing but a peanut”.

Classic.

Here are two I’ve always used to motivate myself.

“Never Satisfied”

and my personal all time favourite

“Why Be a Pussy if You Don’t Have to Be?”

Bouncer: “You can’t bring that jug of water in here”

Me: “Do you have bottled water? No? Then you better believe I’m bringing it in with me.”

Exchange between myself and just about every bouncer at the bars I go to with my buddies

Just about any one of my friends on a given Friday or Saturday night: “Bro, just have a beer”

Me: “No”

Friend: “I don’t get why you almost never drink”

Me: “There are a lot of reasons, but in summary…so I don’t look like you”

And these were a couple I have heard along the way that I have saved on my computer, that apply to more than bodybuilding :slight_smile:

“Todays preparation determines tomorrow’s achievement.”

“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
-Walter Gagehot

“Over Training? There is no such thing, that’s just laziness and an excuse not to work hard”

Lee Priest

[quote]Amsterdam Animal wrote:
I love these bits…

From “Why I train legs” by Machine
I start to get edgy three days before I train legs. It’s like there’s a giant clock ticking in my head. It lasts right up until I enter the weight room on reckoning day. That ticking turns into a head-splitting air raid siren, and when that happens all I see are people running for cover as my resentment builds?.

?Hell, one day a woman and her husband came up to me after a set. I was ten shades of white and covered in sweat. She said, “Why do you do this to yourself?” I said to her, “I hope your not expecting some bullshit poetry class answer to that.” After gulping down some air, I finished by saying, “I do it because I was born to and when I load these plates onto this bar something irresistible comes alive in me.”

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That is a great quote

“Train hard or stay home”.

“Pain is not an obstacle”.

I live by these two.

I love this thread!

Here is one of my favorite quotes from Henry Rollins. It was a “Strong Words” a few months ago I think

“When the Iron doesn’t want to come off the mat, it’s the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn’t teach you anything. That’s the way the Iron talks to you. It tells you that the material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you.” - Henry Rollins