Quotes About Bodybuilding

Kurt Marnul can win Mr. Austria," I thought, "and he's already told me that I could too if I train hard, so that's what I'm going to do." This thought made the hours of lifting tons of steel and iron actually a joy. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of winning Mr. Austria and entering the Mr. Europe competition.

One sign of possible overtraining is a lack of a pump during your workouts.)

I have found you can still get the pump to come if you focus and concentrate hard enough.

You can overthink anything. There are always negatives. The more you know, the less you tend to do something. If I had known everything about real estate, movies, and bodybuilding, I wouldn't have gone into them. I felt the same about marriage; I might not have done it if I'd known everything I'd have to go through. The hell with that! I knew Maria was the best woman for me, and that's all that counted.

have never seen a case in which an individual made progress in bodybuilding without experiencing an accompanying boost in self-esteem, self-confidence, and enjoyment of life.

I'm always trying to improve on my overall package. Just try to get a little bit harder and maintain the same muscle quality.

I quit working in the police force full time only after I won my third Mr. Olympia.

Back when I was competing in the Olympia I think you saw a lot of guys who were in really good shape.

My sole goal when getting ready for a contest was not building a lot of size, although when I was coming up pure muscle size was still very important. I was always really concerned about coming in very sharp conditioning wise.

I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.

If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.

I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.

Bodybuilding helped me to realize that I don't have to look like the girls in the magazines and that it's OK to feel good about my curves.

When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned.

I just lifted heavy, and if I looked good, then that's good with me.

My heroes were people like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I try to work out, but a lot of hotels don't have gyms anymore, so I always try to find a local gym where there's not a ton of 'roid-heads, 'cause I can't stand them. It's tough.

For 'Conan,' I had to eat boiled chicken breast and work out all the time and basically eat like a bird every two hours and stay ripped.

It's difficult to maintain the six-pack abs. They demand a specific workout and diet plan. Even professional bodybuilders sport six-pack abs on and off.

I stick to bread-and-butter bodybuilding. I hit my muscles from various angles, work on bringing up any weaknesses, and design workouts that are always challenging and helping me progress.