Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the…

- Mark Rippetoe

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

- Mark Rippetoe

I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM was talking to some other guy ab…

- Mark Rippetoe

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

- Mark Rippetoe

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 s…

- Mark Rippetoe

There is never an absolute answer to everything, except of course that you have to do your squats.

- Mark Rippetoe

There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.

- Mark Rippetoe

The only legitimate use for a glove is to cover an injury... A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so as to not snag one's pantyhose) does n…

- Mark Rippetoe

You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights

- Mark Rippetoe