Weightlifting Quotes

“I get better everyday, everyday I get better.”

— Joseph C. Reyes

My mum didn't want me to do weightlifting because the sport is for men.

— Hidilyn Diaz

“What's not to like about weightlifting?”

— Neil Gander

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

— Jon Pall Sigmarsson

“Do not fear what you cannot lift, fear that which can lift you.”

— Uziel Matos Lima

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

— Ronnie Coleman

I don't really know why I like weightlifting, especially since training is very hard. It just came into my life and I…

— Hidilyn Diaz

“Training records become a barometer of accomplishment and a roadmap for further progress.”

— Craig Cecil

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all…

— Shane Black

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and…

— Henry Rollins

I'm happy when children join weightlifting and they get curious because that's how I started.

— Hidilyn Diaz

“Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity.”

— Craig Cecil

After school I would go to the gym where I actually did Olympic weightlifting. And usually that night I would do bodybuilding…

— Mat Fraser

“Instead, you’re going to do what most popular mainstream weightlifting programs never prescribe: you’re going to focus on heavy, compound weightlifting, and…

— Michael Matthews

I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people…

— A. J. Jacobs

I am hopeful that weightlifting will grow with more kids getting into the sport not just from Zamboanga City or Cebu but…

— Hidilyn Diaz

What Sri Chinmoy has done in his weightlifting is an absolute miracle. He is a man of unique strength, a spiritual man…

— Bill Pearl

Sri Chinmoy is truly unique and special. He has rediscovered the lost art of special strength feats and weightlifting. He has got…

— Bill Pearl

“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before that, when I grew up,…

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put…

— Anonymous

I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I…

— Sri Chinmoy

Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my…

— Regis Philbin

“...full range of motion, multi-joint exercises are not supposed to isolate any one muscle. We use them precisely because they don't. We…

— Mark Rippetoe

Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are…

— Sri Chinmoy

I take exercise for each part of the body: arms, legs, back and whatever muscles are required to keep the body fit.…

— Sri Chinmoy

I do some weightlifting, a lot of different weight stuff, strength and conditioning stuff, a little bit of everything.

— Chuck Liddell

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, 'cause it's a nice balance to the weightlifting.

— Adrian Grenier

The weightlifting was easy. The diet - no sugar, no salt, no carbs, way too much breast of chicken with no seasoning…

— Michael Ealy

I will be the most marketable of anybody to come through weightlifting ever. With my personality and my size, I mean, I…

— Mark Henry

There's no weightlifting event in Palaro, that's why I'm going here, hoping they consider including weightlifting again.

— Hidilyn Diaz

The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

— Ed Zern

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

— Bob Hope

My main goal is to help out kids in my hometown and realize their dream in weightlifting.

— Hidilyn Diaz

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

— Ryan Lilly

“The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell.”

— Craig Cecil

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

— Herb Kelleher

I started weightlifting because I wanted to get jacked, not to have the best form.

— Mat Fraser

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

— Ronnie Coleman