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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

30 Old School Motivational Bodybuilding quotes

We all need some motivation every once in a while to get through tough times, and what better way is to get some motivation than to look up to our idols? Here are some of the most inspiring old school bodybuilding quotes:

JM Blakely Quote

Bodybuilding Quote #1


"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn" - Arnold Schwarzenegger 

Bodybuilding Quote #2


"I don't feel sorry for those who lack the discipline to eat more." - JM Blakely

Bodybuilding Quote #3


�I don�t eat for taste, I eat for function.� - Jay Cutler

Bodybuilding Quote #4


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


Jim Conroy Quote


Bodybuilding Quote #5


"Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max." - Jim Conroy

Bodybuilding Quote #6


Sell yourself short on nutrition and you are selling yourself short on maximizing your physique development. - Ernie Taylor

Bodybuilding Quote #7


"A champion is someone who gets up when they can't." - Jack Dempsey

Bodybuilding Quote #8


"Always asked, 'Whats the key to success?' The key is, there is no key.  Be humble, hungry and always be the hardest worker in the room." - Dwayne Johnson

Bodybuilding Quote #9


"If you're capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren't working hard enough." - Dave Tate

Mike Tyson Quote

Bodybuilding Quote #10


Don't have $100.00 shoes and a 10 cent squat. Louie Simmons

Bodybuilding Quote #11


"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it." - Mike Tyson

Bodybuilding Quote #12


"Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts." - Dan John

Bodybuilding Quote #13


"There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!" - Jon Pall Sigmarsson

Bodybuilding Quote #14


"There is no such thing as over training, just under nutrition and under sleeping." - The Barbarian brothers

Bodybuilding Quote #15


"The road to nowhere is paved with excuses." - Mark Bell

Bodybuilding Quote #16


Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. - Mary Anne Radmacher

John Wooden Quote

Bodybuilding Quote #17


If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.- Thomas Jefferson


Bodybuilding Quote #18


"If a man tells you he doesn't lift because he doesn't want to get too bulky, then his testicles have been removed." - Paul Carter

Bodybuilding Quote #19


"Fortunately, there is a solution, and it's not performing multiple sets of whatever cable Kegel exercise is being pushed as The Answer. Just a little hard, smart, basic work." - Jim Wendler


Bodybuilding Quote #20


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


Bodybuilding Quote #21


"The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds." - Henry Rollins


Bodybuilding Quote #22


"Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses." - Tom Platz

Bodybuilding Quote #23


"I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong. - Steve Reeves


Bodybuilding Quote #24


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

Bodybuilding Quote #25


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

Jack Dempsey Quote


Bodybuilding Quote #26


"On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means." - Steve Shaw

Bodybuilding Quote #27


"That's a good weight...for a small woman" - Dorian Yates

Bodybuilding Quote #28


"I never think about losing." - Lou Ferrigno

Bodybuilding Quote #29


"You get one life. Live an interesting life. Do interesting things. Lifting is not that interesting in the grand scheme of things. If you have a chance to go somewhere you've never been, and it's a once in a lifetime thing and you turn it down because you don't want to miss lifting for that week, you are a F'n moron and should have your ass kicked 6 ways till Sunday. Lifting will always be there. Don't miss out on the interesting things in life for some iron on the bar." - Paul Carter

Bodybuilding Quote #30


People laugh and call me lazy, while they twit around in their three-hour workout making zero progress. Sometimes, instead of what you do in the weight room, it's what you don't do that will lead to success. - Jim Wendler


If you know some more inspiring Bodybuilding quotes, let us know in the comment section below!

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