i like this quote-- “you put the weight of the world on my shoulders, and i stood the f@*k up,”
“Let your reach exceed your grasp, else what is a heaven for.”
Thoreau or Emerson I beleive but I’m not sure.
Not bodybuilding but a good quote none the less.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” Thomas Jefferson
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” Ernest Hemingway.
“the best activities for your body are pumping and humping”
- arnold.
[quote]supermick wrote:
one from my all time favourite strongman: -
“If you can squat heavy and have solid shits, what more can you ask of life?”
Jon Paul Sigmarsson
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Not dieing at 30 something.
[quote]Amsterdam Animal wrote:
Here is another, not sure where it came from…
“Its not about the kind of car you drive but about the size of the big fucking arm hanging out the window”
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Sounds like something the jobless gym rats I know would say.
You’re born small and weak, you die small and weak. What you are in between is up to you.
“Life is too short to be small”
I saw it printed on a shirt. Cute but tacky.
My favorite non body quote is
“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.” - General Macarthur
[quote]E-man wrote:
Not bodybuilding but
“Wow, did you see the funbags on that one”
“Yea, he must workout”
Dumb&Dumber[/quote]
The response to the “funbags” quote was:
“I’d like to eat her liver with some farva beans and a nice bottle of Ciante!”
ROFL.
Not exactly a bodybuilding quote but something I like to live by nonetheless:
“Fuck off with your sofa units and serine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let… lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.”
-Tyler Durden
Milk is for babies…real men drink beer-Arnold when asked if he drank milk in his diet.
This one has always stuck with me…
“Obsessed is just a word that lazy people use to describe the dedicated.”
Bango
Nice one JB. Thanks.
A
[quote]jimmybango wrote:
This one has always stuck with me…
“Obsessed is just a word that lazy people use to describe the dedicated.”
Bango[/quote]
Beefcake!!!
- Eric Cartman
“If you don’t get this lift you are a fucking pussy”
Say this one to a training partner and I can almost guarantee they will get a lift they didnt think they could do.
Good thread, AA. ‘Pain is weakness leaving the body’ is from the Navy Seals
My favourites:
‘It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the strength and beauty of which his body is capable.’
- Socrates
‘Pain is temporary, quitting is forever.’
- Lance Armstrong
And from the king of intensity himself …
‘Most guys won’t do all they can, but they huff, puff, make lots of noise and experience some discomfort and think, “I’m tough, I’m bad, I’m really training hard. I’m doing great.” Breathing heavily and having muscle burning is a signal to too many trainees that “well, that’s it.” On the contrary, congratulate yourself, you’ve just reached the starting line. “Now I’m starting to hurt, now I’m starting to stimulate gains, now I have to push much harder.”’
- Dr Ken Leistner
Rob
[quote]puglet wrote:
“The harder I train and better I eat…the better my genetics seem to get.”[/quote]
That is great.
[i]Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it, in preference to every other pursuit.
I know the difficulty with which a studious man tears himself from his studies, at any given moment of the day. But his happiness, and that of his family depend on it. The most uninformed mind, with a healthy body, is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession, but I do not scruple to say that health is more so. In my view, no knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.[/i]
Thomas Jefferson
My favorite of all time, all by Lance Armstrong:
“This is my body. And I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I’m on. What am I on? I’m on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?”
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
“Cancer is my secret because none of my rivals has been that close to death and it makes you look at the world in a different light and that is a huge advantage.”
“Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things–whether health or a car or an old sense of self–has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.”
“I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or great days.”
"On training for the TdF: “I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find…I rode when no one else would ride, not even my teammates”
“If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you’ve got to go all the way.”
“The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father.”
“Go heavy or go home.”
“Pain lets you know you’re still alive”
“…weakness leaving the body.”
“…no gain.”
Or it might mean you fucked up BAD.
“I start counting when it starts to hurt.”
I think Chris Dickerson said this in relation to training his calves.
There are a lot of great quotes so far, but this one made me laugh:
[quote]puglet wrote:
“The harder I train and better I eat…the better my genetics seem to get.”[/quote]
I can hear this coming from the mouths of so many “hard gainers” I know, who concentrate on their eating for a month, or so, gaining 10lbs and think some maricle has occured, or their body type suddenly changed over night.