Training: Get over your weaker self with these motivational quotes

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.

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.

Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.

Passion trumps everything.

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment.

Shut up and train.

I don’t care what you USED to bench.

Right now, your competition is training.

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

The meet don’t start till the bars on the floor.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Don’t have $100.00 shoes and a 10 cent Squat.

Big quads without big hamstrings is like steak without potatoes.

To be number one, you have to train like you’re number two.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Go Hard, or Go Home.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Other gyms use machines… CrossFit builds them.

That’s a good weight…for a small woman.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Just do it.

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

Squat.

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

Curls for the girls.

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.

The pain you feel today is the strength you’ll feel tomorrow.

Don’t ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The difference between someone who is in shape, and someone who is not in shape, is the individual who is in shape works out even when they do not want to.

The only easy day was yesterday.

What good is it to look like Tarzan and play like Jane?

Have you ever noticed an athlete in the weight room who is built like Tarzan, yet lifts weights better suited for Jane? Yet, there are other athletes who are every bit as strong and functional as they look.

Feel the burn.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

No pain, no gain.

Stimulate don’t annihilate.

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.

Light weight … Yeah buddy!

Curl in the squat rack and die!

You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

No excuses.

Intensity builds immensity.

You’re gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you’ve ever dreamed. But when it’s over, I know you’ll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

Aint nuttin’ but a peanut.

Ain’t nuttin’ to it, but ta do it!

If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise.

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’ Tomorrow is disease.

An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.

If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you’re not laying a brick down. Somebody else is.

To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men.

Squat, jump, climb, throw, lift.

If you don’t do what’s best for your body, your the one who comes up on the short end.

Bodybuilding is my religion, the gym is my church.

Duuuude If I finish this set maybe a hot chick would suddenly come over and do naughty…naughty things with me.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.