Gregory Eakins

“Adolescence, while it’s a place I like to visit periodically, shouldn’t be a lifestyle. Tragic maturity, while appropriate at times, will kill your soul if practiced perpetually.”
― T.C. Luoma, The Testosterone Principles 2: Manhood and Other Stuff

“The problem is, we look for someone to grow old together, while the secret is to find someone to stay a child with.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We know deep down that the perfect body or ultimate personal record can never really be achieved, because our imagination always sets the goal a step or two or three ahead of what we’ve accomplished. And we also know that the universe is merciless enough to give us a few physical challenges that we won’t be, can’t be, prepared for.

So it’s not the goal that’s important, it’s the journey. The journey’s the thing. The journey’s the reward.”
― T.C. Luoma, The Testosterone Principles 2: Manhood and Other Stuff

“When you were a kid, didn’t you dream about going off to slay dragons? Didn’t you dream about being some kind of hero?

And as you grew up and realized that you probably wouldn’t be slaying any dragons, real or metaphorical, didn’t you get tired of just watching others do physical things? Didn’t you get tired of only being involved in surrogate achievement, you know, living vicariously through the basketball players, the soccer players, the Italian bocce ball players, or whoever it is you admire?

You gotta’ understand, people like me never stop lifting weights. The part of us that wanted to slay the dragon? It didn’t die. It won’t.”
― T.C. Luoma, The Testosterone Principles 2: Manhood and Other Stuff