Quotes on Bodybuilding Training

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

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

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

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'