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“My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.” by charlie chaplin


Every time you stay out late....
Every time you sleep in.....
Every time you miss a workout....
Every time you don't give 100%....
You make it that much easier
for me to beat you. - Unknown


"My goal when I come in here everyday is to make sure that if someone beats me - its not because they outworked me!" - Layne Norton, Natural Pro.


"You gotta be true to yourself because if you let what others do influence what you do you really have nothing left of yourself" - Layne Norton, Natural Pro.


"If you don't have it. Don't hit it" - Arnold


"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 into your muscles and that's what we call The Pump. You muscles get a really tight feeling, like your skin is going to explode any minute, and it's really tight - it's like somebody blowing air into it, into your muscle. It just blows up, and it feels really different. It feels fantastic." "It's as satisfying to me as, uh, coming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and coming. And so can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like, uh, getting the feeling of coming in a gym, I'm getting the feeling of coming at home, I'm getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up, when I pose in front of 5,000 people, I get the same feeling, so I am coming day and night. I mean, it's terrific. Right? So you know, I am in heaven."


-Arnold


"Train beyond the pain and death is your only release" -Steve Michalik-Mr. America


"I don't eat for taste, I eat for function." -Jay Cutler


"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." -Arnold


"Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone 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. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on."


- Arnold


No I don't drink milk. Milk is for babies, when you get older you drink beer -Arnold Schwarzenegger


"Stimulate don't annihilate"-The Great Lee Haney


"With determination and heart, there is nothing you can't do. I don't care how small you are, how skinny you are - I mean if you have the heart, and you have the drive, and you have the determination you can do whatever the hell you want!  - Guy Cisterino, NPC Competitor
"Anybody that ever tells me that I can't do something - thats just more fuel to my fire. I love it when people say 'oh you can't do this, you can't do that,' because they're the ones that make me do the extra rep, to throw the extra 10lbs on the bar, they're the ones that, when I step on stage, I want them right along side me so I can just destroy them on stage.


- Guy Cisterino, NPC Competitor


"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weights"


-Ronnie Coleman


"Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it." -big ronald


"I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles." -MARKUS RUHL




you cant over train, you can only under eat- Trey Brewer


"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


"Aint nothin but a peanut" -King Coleman 


"You never know it till you live it" -Ronald D. Coleman


I had a goal to be the best from day one -Jay Cutler 


"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life." - Edward B. Butler


"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Gagehot


"Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination." - Anonymous






"Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride."
- Vince Lombardi


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


"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them." - Anonymous


"Todays preparation determines tomorrow's achievement." - Anonymous


"The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else." - Anonymous


"Always act as though it were impossible to fail." - Anonymous


"The quality of a persons life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Anonymous


"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after." - Anonymous


"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - Anonymous


"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting." - Anonymous


“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will”


"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." - Anonymous


"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal- a commitment to excellence- that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Anonymous


“If the pain gets too much, just think. The universe is so large and your pain is almost non-exsistant in comparison. Therefore your pain does not exist." 


“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."


“Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."


“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."


“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."


“The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account." 


“The more you train, the more people there are who are weaker than you."
“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training...what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."


- Socrates 


I do now what others won't - so I can have later what others can't.


"I don't have time to lift, I make time"


I can deadlift you. - my wife


“When I was ten years old I got this thing that I wanted to be the best in something, so I started swimming. I won championships, but I felt I couldn’t be the best. I tried skiing, but there I felt I didn’t have potential. I played soccer, but I didn’t like that to well because there I didn’t get the credit alone if I did something special. I just avoided team sports from then on. Then I started lifting through the other sports and I enjoyed it the most. I won the Austrian championship in 1964 but found out I was too tall. So I quit that and went into body building. Two years later I found out that that’s it-that’s what I can be the best in.” -arnold 


“The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That’s why I call it the torture routine. Because it’s like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain make me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I’m in heaven. It’s great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they’re wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don’t like needle’s stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.” -arnold


"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle-


"Suffering is what champions are all about, and champions suffer the longest". -Anonymous


“Can you imagine what I would do, if I could do all I can?” -Sun Tzu-


"Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself." -Arnold Schwarzenegger


Train like God is watching -Anonymous


shut up and train..  -Anonymous


I'm too sexy for my shirt. -Anonymous


"Go heavy or Go home" -Anonymous


"At the end, the ladies always prefer the bigger guy- me" -Anonymous


"Right now, your competition is training" -Anonymous


Why live if one cannot Deadlift? -Anonymous


"You have to do what others won't, to achieve what others don't"   -Anonymous


"It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog" - Magic Johnson, NBA Star


"Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve." - Stella Juarez Author


"Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger" - Micheal S. Kirby




"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher & Writer
"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher, Poet, and Classical Philologist


"Fall down seven times, get up eight" -Chinese proverb


"There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox


"Success must be felt within before it can be seen on the outside." - Unknown


"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them." - Ralph Marston, Author and Publisher of The Daily Motivator


"Pain is only weakness leaving the body" - Unknown


"Strength is the product of struggle" - Unknown


"How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?" -Jason Bishop, About Bodybuilding Reader


"Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you" - Ovid


"Tough times don't last. Tough people do." - Unknown


"There are only two options regarding commitment, You're either in or your out. There's no such thing as life in between." - Anonymous


Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated." -Anonymous


"It's never too late to become what you might have been". -George Elliot


"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. - Brian Tracy, Motivational speaker


"Your body hears everything your mind says." - Naomi Judd, Singer/Songwriter


"The man who has no imagination has no wings. " - Muhammad Ali, Boxing Champion, Peace Ambassador


"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." -Wayne Gretzky, Professional Hockey Player


"The harder you work, the luckier you get." -Gary Player, Golfer


"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do" - John Wooden, UCLA Basketball Coach


"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big." - Donald Trump, Entrepreneur


"To give any less than your best is to sacrifice a gift" Steve Prefontaine, runner


"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."- Chinese Proverb


"Things do not change. We change." - Henry David Thoreau, Author/Philosopher


" So you want to grow , first you have to learn " Chi Town bb.com moderator


"The weights won't lift themselves." - unknown 


No matter what anyone says, everyone wants to be in great shape. They are just jealous because we are the ones who actually get it done. -unknown




"Nobody ever drowned in sweat." - USMC saying


"When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not."-unknown 


"it's always a good day to start lifting"-unknown


COME ON DO IT -Arnold 


Cowards never start...the weak never finish -Johnny Mentalist 


"When life gets complicated I lift" -Johnny Mentalist


"don't worry about this weight.....just worry about the next one!" -Johnny Mentalist


"Day 7 AKA Non-Training day Rest,Sleep,Eat, and Grow! The other 5-6 you know what to f'ing do!" -Johnny Mentalist




"You can cheat on your girlfriend but not on your workout."-Johnny Mentalist




good luck is a result of hard work and preparation. - Johnny Mentalist


''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'' - Johnny Mentalist


"No one believe in miracles until SOMEONE achieved" - Johnny Mentalist


"Pain is temporary, pride is forever" - Johnny Mentalist


‎"Your hard work WILL pay off. Progress may sometimes seem very slow but stick with it and you’ll be rewarded." - Steve Chen


Athletes also have PASSION and you’ll want to develop PASSION too!
Remember the abbreviation PASSION and apply it to your own goal(s).


P =You must PLAN
A = You must take ACTION and put your plan into ACTION.
S =You must have SELF BELIEF and begin with SUCCESS IN MIND.
S =You must find SOCIAL SUPPORT-SURROUND yourself with positive people.
I =You must be INVESTED physically, emotionally and financially.
O =You must identify any and all-potential OBSTACLES.
N =You must develop a NEVER GIVE UP attitude.