Weightlifting Quotes

“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.”
― Ronnie Coleman

“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.”
― Ryan Lilly

“You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.”
― Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training

“Some are born strong and others are made strong.”
― J.R. Rim, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

“The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell.”
― Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow

“Do not fear what you cannot lift, fear that which can lift you.”
― Uziel Matos Lima

“Just keeping yourself interested and motivated to train over a long period of time is often the biggest hurdle and one of the biggest factors for success in building sustainable muscle.”
― Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow

“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“...full range of motion, multi-joint exercises are
not supposed to isolate any one muscle. We use them precisely because they don't. We want them
to work lots of muscles through a long range of motion. We like it when some muscles are called
into function as other muscles drop out of function, and when muscles change function during
the exercise. This is because we are training for strength. We are concerned with improving the
functional motion around a joint. We are not just concerned about our "favorite muscles." We
do not have favorite muscles.”
― Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training

“It's often a razor's edge you'll walk between coaxing adaptation while avoiding exhaustion (or injury). Master this, and you'll unlock the key to continual progress.”
― Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow

“Training records become a barometer of accomplishment and a roadmap for further progress.”
― Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow

“Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity.”
― Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow

“According to the Stanford encyclopedia of Philosophy, Socrates never wore shoes, could bench twice his weight, and was impervious to the effects of alcohol and cold. He did not care for fashion and his gait was that of one who truly did not give a shit.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“~In motivating people, YOU've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved~”
― Rupert Murdoch

“I get better everyday, everyday I get better.”
― Joseph C. Reyes, Private Sessions: and the Sweaty Sexy Stories Behind the Sprawling Walls of the World's Most Luxurious Gym

“Some people would fall in or out of love with you if you lose or gain a few kilos.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Brainless wasn't bad. Today, brainless was right up her alley. This world of grunts and clanking iron, the same tasks repeated mindlessly until failure, Mitzi loved it the moment she'd stepped through the door of the weight room. The Sisyphean repetition of lifting and lowering. Nothing represented life better than this endless losing battle against gravity. The grunts and cries that conveyed so much more than words ever could.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound

“All the athletic exercises in the world are no power to the individual unless he compel those bars and dumbbells to yield to him and strengthen muscle; the power for which he himself pays in effort.”
― William George Jordan, The Majesty of Calmness

“Don't train to GET a better body, train to BE a better body.”
― Nate Hamon

“We pay our gym membership for the permission to exercise in the gym, not for the owner(s) of the gym to exercise for us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Don't fight your biology. Get out of your own way and make all your activity align with the same goal. Once you've achieved that goal - then you can pivot and work toward something else.”
― K Black, Tactical Barbell: Mass Protocol

“There is no reason to be alive if you can't do deadlift.”
― Jon Pall Sigmarsson

“THEY DON'T KNOW ME SON!”
― David Goggins

“The Iron had taught me how to live. Life is capable of driving you out of your mind. The way it all comes down these days, it’s some kind of miracle if you’re not insane. People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole.

I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it’s impossible to turn back.

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