Absorption Quote by Mark Rippetoe

Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to…

— Kai Greene

Everyone gets the impression that bodybuilders are narcissistic, and we look at ourselves in mirrors all the time. But that side of the sport…

— Dorian Yates

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

— Mariah Nelson

The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat,…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm always the guy on tour that tries to get guys chatting and a lot of banter back and forth so I definitely feel…

— Phil Heath

Most bodybuilders are somewhat extravert so they probably enjoy that whole thing of people looking at them all the time and being on stage.…

— Dorian Yates

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

— Camille Paglia

Lots of people who do bodybuilding want to walk around in tank top and shorts, because they want to show people what they've got…

— Dorian Yates

I went to a gym and I never, in a million years, would have considered bodybuilding. But they showed me there's lots of different…

— Katy O'Brian

Bodybuilding is not only a sport but first an ART.

— Serge Nubret

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Female bodybuilding started out as a circus attraction, and I guess it still feels unnatural to some people, especially in a place that's more…

— Katy O'Brian