Top 99 Bodybuilding Quotes & Sayings

In 2010, I was ranked top 50 in the deadlift in three different weight classes, and I won my first natural bodybuilding competition.

If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back.

I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.

Gyms are basically for bodybuilding and maybe rehab but you can't get healthy and fit from a gym. I mean you can, but not holistically.

The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

Competitive bodybuilding is a niche sport, but bodybuilding is for everybody.

I was actually going to school to be a chiropractor but was also succeeding at bodybuilding - I did well in a few national contests.

Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

I never see bodybuilding on the sports page and it is not considered to be a sport because of the drug question, because of steroids, let's be honest.

When I started out, I wasn't a big guy either. I got into bodybuilding just by working out, and starting a fascination with it.

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.

To be successful in bodybuilding you have to be a good observer

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Bodybuilding is about building your body. Whether you do it to maintain your fitness levels, climb Everest, run the marathon, or be a competitive bodybuilder is up to you.

I remember when I was a kid rugby players were some big guys that drunk a lot of beer but now they have proper training programs and diets and all that. And the pioneers of all that is bodybuilding.

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

I never started bodybuilding because I thought I'm not big enough, I'm not strong enough.

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

My first bodybuilding competition was the 2003 NPC Northern Colorado, where I was a light-heavyweight weighing in at 192 lbs. I was very nervous, as it was my first real-life experience being a bodybuilder.

I got into bodybuilding very young - I was 13.

There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused.

When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.

I started training bodybuilding in 1983.

The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.

Bodybuilding is 80% nutrition!

The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

I wanted to set a new standard for competitive bodybuilding.

Bodybuilding is not only a sport but first an ART.

Ever since I retired from competitive bodybuilding, one of my dreams has been to offer an affordable way for independent gym owners to make a comfortable income and empower them to help the sick and diseased at the same time.

Bodybuilding is not my main objective in life. It's just something I do on the side.

Australia is my favorite place to visit. The fans are great, and the sport of bodybuilding is huge.

Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn't understand athletic training and movements. I didn't even know how to squat, necessarily.

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.

When I was in NXT, I was able to compete in the IFBB professional bodybuilding industry, and I took so much pride in that.

Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.

Ive always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.

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

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.

I've no wish to run into a contest and make a fool of myself, leaving my career in a cul-de-sac. I want to be a success in the sport of bodybuilding.

Prior to stepping on stage, I prefer to continue being myself, whether that is making jokes with others, talking about other non-bodybuilding topics, or just sitting around listening to music.

That whole world, the world of bodybuilding to me is fascinating. It's such a unique and interesting culture, and everything about it appeals to me.

As your bodybuilding aims become higher, obviously you have to work harder, until, believe it or not, you are performing from 20-30 sets of both biceps and triceps three workouts per week.

The problem I see with most contests is that the people judging have never competed in a bodybuilding contest. I feel that to have the knowledge necessary to judge a bodybuilding competition, you must have walked in those shoes.

I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting ready to go somewhere. Can you tell me that greasing your body up and posing in front of a mirror is masculine? A bodybuilder puts strength secondary to his physique, whereas the lifter puts strength foremost because it is more masculine to do so.

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

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

When I was 7 or 8, I'd go to bodybuilding shows with my family because they had friends who were into it, and it became something I wanted to do one day. I wanted to look big and strong.

Bodybuilding isn’t 90 minutes in the gym..it’s a lifestyle

If you come to my house there are no bodybuilding pictures or anything in my house. I try to keep that separate, just because it is all consuming and I don't want it around me when I'm at home.

I began bodybuilding shortly after I watched a couple friends compete at a state show and thought it would be cool to try.

I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.

Boxing is not a bodybuilding sport, plain and simple. Your body isn't going to win a fight.

Some people in Hollywood think I'm nuts with this bodybuilding stuff. They'll say, 'You're getting too big. You'll hurt your career.' But they don't understandthat high that comes from a workout, the challenge, and the personal victory.

Bodybuilding has been my life; if it weren't for bodybuilding, I don't know what I'd be doing. I look at bodybuilding as who I am.

We have a great tradition of bodybuilding in the United States.

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.

Nutrition is 150 per cent of the bodybuilding formula. It's that important.

I benched up to 500 pounds one day and decided that was enough because I knew the risk of a pec tear or a shoulder injury would be catastrophic to my bodybuilding career.