Quotes on Great Bodybuilding

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 is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

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.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic.

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.

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.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.

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