Never let external factors affect how you are going to…

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…

— Steve Reeves

There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!

— Jon Pall Sigmarsson

I'm not the kind of guy who tries to run between the drops. Sometimes you gotta get a little wet to reach your destination

— Erik Fankhouser

To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority…

— Fredrick Hatfield

They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life,…

— Kai Greene

Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger

— Michael Kirby

I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see…

— Vince Gironda

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

— Margi Preus

“The modern fitness scene is largely defined by the presence of pumped up, muscle-bound bodybuilders, expensive exercise machines, and steroids. It's wasn't always this…

— Paul "Coach" Wade

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

— Mark Rippetoe

“If you don't like what you see, stop looking.”

— Nancy Lopez

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

— Lee Labrada

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

— Marian Diamond

And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even…

— Big James Henderson

Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the…

— Mark Rippetoe