Kirsty is a BAD girl.
She like to make it as hard as possible.
She takes it as deep as possible.
She keeps going even when it is hurting.
She can't walk properly after a hard session.
Are you man enough to be her partner???"

Author: Krista Scott
Title: Haiku: Back Exercises

> I gotta increase the size of my lats. My legs, arms,
> chest has grown but my lats need work. I don't know
> how to get 'em to grow. What are the main exercises
> for lat growth?

Pullups. Rows. All kinds.
Don't forget to deadlift, too.
Read this and grow wings.

"It ain't rocket science, son. Just keep piling it on till you can't lift any more."
Krista Scott

"The myth that women should not lift heavy is advanced only by women who fear effort and men who fear women."
- Eric Midkiff

I can squat, and will continue to squat. When I die, I'll need a T-shaped coffin.
- Stephen Mulholland

"So tell us, in which video does she squat so much weight that she bursts a blood vessel in her nose? That's the one I want!"
Krista Scott

It's that gendered socialization. We're told to be nice, be polite, and not make a fuss. Of course, being an evil bitch, I am excepted from this.
- Krista Scott

Duh, John! Of course deadlifts hit the lats. That is, the version of the deadlift where the bar is fixed overhead and you lift yourself up.
- Viki

When in doubt, stand on your feet and hold the bar in your hand.
- Edward J. Kilsdonk

Yes, ankle weights are great. Even better are concrete shoes. Please use them while running on a pier somewhere.
- Sandeep De

Whaaa!! You think you can just rip your old mother's heart out? I should live this long just to see my child leg press? What did I do wrong? Nobody is going to marry you with legs like that!
- Krista Scott

You're confusing 'sore' with 'pain.' Pain is sharp and ugly. Sore makes you feel alive.
- cindy

I had a hard time getting out of bed this morning, and it hurts when I breathe, but other than that sore abs are no problem!
- Viki

Sore glutes are really inconvenient because people will notice you're walking funny and you can't explain it away by saying, 'Oh, I'm fine; my ass is a little sore.'
- Viki

And verily the great goddess SQW'AT said unto you: Get your ass under the bar, boy!
- Annette Howard

I really must be delusional because I swear I could also see my serratus. Probably just my ribs again.
- Viki

Come over the side of good and pick up heavy things, then set them down. This is the way to the acceptance of self, to the feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of self-gratification.
- Watson Davis

You are doing 15-20 reps why? Put some of those LARGE round objects on the bar and all your dreams will be fulfilled.
- Mike Moore

Mongo big! Mongo strong! Mongo lift one, two...uh....many plates.
- Billy Chambless

I've always gone to the gym with the conviction that I'll be the hardest working motherfucker in the joint. Make that your credo, and hope we don't lift at the same place.
- Adam Fahy

There is one advantage to the leg press: you can load up the plates, do six-inch partials, and impress all the dimwits in the gym. BFD.
- John Williams

Does anybody know where I can get an Inzer Internet Bullshitting Suit? I hear it can add up to 175 to your imaginary squat.
- Billy Chambless

And that, my friends, is why so many people prefer the leg press to squats ... it just depends on what you're trying to build -- your muscles or your ego.
- Billy Chambless

Actually, deadlifts help anything. You want more muscle? Deadlift. You want to lose bodyfat? Deadlift. Your alternator on your car not working properly? Deadlift.
- ROBO

If walking was so good at burning fat, then why are there so many fat bastard golfers?
- George Whyte

Obviously, you've never tried to hang a towel on a smith machine! Now, that is where those babies really shine.
- Deepsquatter

If you want to know more, don't email me. Do your own research.
- John Williams

JUST PICK THE BAR UP UNTIL YOU CAN'T ANYMORE THEN GO EAT!!!!!
- Billy Chambless

BTW, you're right, a majority of the male population is not gay. What they are is a bunch of pussies who are mortified by the notion that a woman might be stronger and more muscularly developed than them.
- Bil Greene

Plus, they don't want to tire themselves out too much on squats. I mean you've gotta save some energy for the Hammer Strength IsoFooFoo cross body reverse lateral curl. That's where the growth comse from!
- Jason Burnell

EAT MORE!!! 1 cup of milk? What is that? Like 100 calories? Not enough for an anorexic termite!!
- Krista Scott

Get your low weight, high reppin', bicep curlin' 'I just wanna tone' ass outta my power rack.
- Jon Grimes

If aerobics bunnies live longer than weight-lifters, they spend the difference as brittle, immobile nursery home inhabitants.
- Viki

I love my weightlifting brethren but yeash....some days the metal things are not the only dumbbells in the gym...
- Stephanie Starr

Hit your food as hard as you hit the iron, then be a lazy bastard.....THAT is the key to gaining size and strength.
- SWLABR

Use the trap bar for benching. It will not add 100 pounds to your bench press, but the idiots in the gym will see you and think it is the cool, new lift, and they will start doing that instead of curling in the squat cage.
- John M. Wiliams

Who the fuck wants to see natural bodybuilders anyway. It would be like reading a Hustler with all the girls fully clothed.
- Robert Schuh, m.f.w.

Your theory is retarded. You are not a pro bodybuilder and I am sure that your legs are not very big either.
- Robert Schuh

Why do you come back here? Go to alt.aerobics.numbnuts if you don't like honest talk about drugs.
- Will Brink

Yeah, the more someone knows about supplements, the more he will spend on supplements. That makes sense. To a moron.
- Bill Roberts

Well, if God wanted people to see my abs, He wouldn't have created pasta.
- Tim Cecil

It's idiots like you who do jumping jacks in the power rack and get in everyone's way in the gym. Why don't you just buy a soloflex like pussies like you normally do?!
- David Welch

Clearly it matters not what I say even if I can back it up with scholarship. I will now only respond to you using words pulled at random from the day's newspaper. Emu. Rutabaga. Winnipeg. Colonial.
Krista Scott

"Haiku: Back Exercises
Pullups. Rows. All kinds.
Don't forget to deadlift, too.
Read this and grow wings."
- Krista Scott

"What!? No child of mine is going to leg press! You just march back to that gym right now young man and crank out some squats or you get no dessert tonight! And don't let me catch you rounding your back or it'll be no allowance for you!"
- Krista Scott

"Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a hitting sport."

"I think that a boy with talent has a moral obligation to fulfill it, and I will not relent on my own responsibility."

"Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale."

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

"The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasions them."

"The strength of the group is in the strength of the leader. Many mornings when I am worried or depressed, I have to give myself what is almost a pep talk, because I am not going before that ball club without being able to exude assurance. I must be the first believer, because there is no way you can hoodwink the players."

"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures."

"You never lose. But sometimes the clock runs out on you."

What it takes to be No. 1

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up-from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization-an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win-to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there-to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules-but to win.

And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

I don't say these things because I believe in the "brute" nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

Intensity

"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do."

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm."

"Mental toughness is essential to success."

"You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man."

Sacrifice

"To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price."

"Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there."

"Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures."

Belief

"Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both."

"If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."

"Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it-his mind, his body and his heart-what is life worth to him? If I were a salesman, I would make this commitment to my company, to the product and most of all, to myself."

Commitment

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."

"Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success."

"Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it-his mind, his body, his heart-what's life worth to him."

Character

"It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men."

"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

"They may not love you at the time, but they will later."

Leadership

"Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character."

"Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow."

"Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it."

"A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the company."

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

Preparation

"They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them…you show them the reasons."

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

Desire

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

"The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel-these are the things that endure and these are the qualities that are so much more important than any of the events that occasion them."

"It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere."

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

Discipline

"I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something good in men that really yearns for discipline."

"The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince."

"Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action."

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Teamwork

"Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

"Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale."

"Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another."

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."

"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."

Winning

"Success demands singleness of purpose."

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result."

"Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

"Winning is not everything--but making effort to win is."

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner."

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious."

Quotes on Lombardi

"Despite being known as a disciplinarian, my father always knew how to get the best out of his players. He focused on teamwork and understood that if you treat people with respect and treat them like winners, they will perform as winners. The cornerstone of Vince Lombardi's teaching methods were commitment, sacrifice, and mental toughness, three attributes which continue to be stressed by many of today's successful coaches and by many successful business people as well."
- Vince Lombardi Jr.

"When Lombardi said 'sit down' we didn't look for a chair."
- Forrest Gregg

"It was a helluva performance to listen to when he'd go out there and get his troops around him. He laughed. He cried. He motivated. I think he could motivate almost anybody to do almost anything. He communicated with human emotions."
- Chuck Lane

"He made us realize that if the mind was willing, the body can go."
- Forrest Gregg

"He made you a believer. He told you what the other team was going to do, and he told you what you had to do to beat them, and invariably he was right."
- Willie Davis

"He made us all better than we thought we could be."
- Jerry Kramer

"He pushed you to the end of your endurance and then beyond it. And if there was reserve there, well he found that too."
- Henry Jordan

"All he wanted from you was perfection."
- Jim Taylor

"Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best."
- Bart Starr

"He prepared us so well, and he motivated us so well, I felt he was a part of me on the field."
- Fuzzy Thurston

"His enthusiasm, his spirit, was infectious."
- Frank Gifford

"Respect wasn't a one way street with him. He demanded it of others but he also gave it."
- Pete Rozelle

"The fear in my mind was not him but that for some reason I would not be a part of this team and be with this man."
- Forrest Gregg

"He was very much interested in the total man as far as his players were concerned. I know that he was very interested in the fact that guys be total citizens. In other words, that we may be the type of people, citizens the town would be proud of."
- Carrol Duke

"You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over."
- George Halas

"Hard work is something that 99% of the people in the world shy away from. If something proves to be the least bit difficult to achieve, they immediately give up. The person who doesn't give up, who goes on despite something being difficult to achieve, always comes out on top."
- Boyer Coe (Mr. Universe)

"In a word, consistency has been the key to my success as a bodybuilder."
- Robbie Robinson (Mr. Universe)

"If you fully believe you will be successful and can visualize yourself being successful, you will succeed."
- Tom Platz (Mr. Universe)

"Above all else, I believe that I have been successful as a bodybuilder because I love the sport ... if I didn't sincerely love the sport, I could never have put in the long hours of intense training nor monitored my diet as strictly as I have in order to win."
- Samir Bannout (Mr. Olympia)

"In bodybuilding you have to retain your childlike glee and creativity intact, so that dogmas of ordinary society don't drag you down."
- Ray Mentzer (Mr. America)

"The best bodybuilders would still be the best without drugs, because they are mentally committed to bodybuilding and are willing to train hard and consistently, as well as follow a disciplined diet."
- Lou Ferrigno (Mr. Universe)

"I'm several years past 40 and still placed in the top five of my class at the last Mr. America, competing against men 15-20 years younger. With every year that goes by, I learn new techniques that will improve my physique. If there is a secret to bodybuilding success, it can only be sticking with the sport long enough to become good at it."
- Paul Love (Past 40 Mr. America)

"I receive great spiritual gratification from my struggle for physical perfection, and this is the reason why I have trained as hard as I have for such a long period of time."
- Shigeru Sugita (Mr. Universe)

"... Finally, if you want to become a superstar, you must work hard to develop personal charisma."
- Dr. Franco Columbu (Mr. Olympia, former powerlifting World Record Holder)

"Känn efter - tänk på balansen - skynda långsamt, är man skadad bygger man inga muskler.Kör hårt och koncentrerat, men glöm aldrig att känna efter. Känns det bra, kör. Känns det inte bra, sluta. Följ kroppens signaler."
- Johan "Plexus" Oldenmark

"Never eat more than you can lift."
- Miss Piggy

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. The physician of tomorrow will be the nutritionist of today."
-Thomas Edison

"There is no secret routine, there is no magical number of reps and sets. What there is, is confidence, belief, hard work on a consistent basis, and a desire to succeed. This is what I mean when I say accept your limits and when the time is right, you will push right through your limits time and time again, mentally and physically."
- Steve Justa, in the "Barrel Lift"

"When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything. That's the way the Iron talks to you. It tells you that the material you work with is that which you will come to resemble."
- Henry Rollins

"Nobody ever drowned in sweat."
- USMC

"Non est vivere sed valere vita.
Life is not merely to live, but to be strong."

"Squats are the basis of life on earth as we know it."
- Victor Schreiner

"We all push just as hard. It's just that some of us can lift more weight."

"Citius, Altius, Fortius"
"Faster, Higher, Stronger"

"With great power comes great responsibility"

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."
- Bonnie Prudden

"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical exercise saves it and preserves it."
- Plato

"Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body."
- Lynn Jennings

"The greatest enemy of your creative powers is smug complacency - being satisfied with less than what you are capable of doing."
- Nido Qubein, author, speaker

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."
- Pat Riley

"Remember, too, that 'Rome was not built in a day,' and that patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor."
- Joseph Pilates

"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."
- Ann Landers

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."
- Jawaharlal Nehru

"Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford

"The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it."
- Rona Barrett

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."
- Joe Paterno

"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."
- Juma Ikangaa (Tanzanian marathoner)

"A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste." - Unknown

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failures... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)

"There is no substitute for hard work."
- Thomas Alva Edison

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
- Dale Carnegie

"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any." 
- Plato

"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as a sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. The physician of tomorrow will be the nutritionist of today."
- Thomas Edison

"No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living." --Marie Beynon Ray

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
- George Bernard Shaw

"You will never find time for anything. You must make it."
- Charles Buxton

"It's your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude."
- Zig Ziglar

"The first and great commandment is, 'Don't let them scare you'."
- Elmer Davis

“We used to think of exercise for preventing diseases. It’s not only wonderful for prevention, it’s wonderful for treatment.”

“If the benefits of exercise could be put in a single pill, it would be the most widely prescribed medication in the world.”
- Nicholas A. DiNubile, M.D. @ DrNick.com

“Soon physicians may begin writing exercise prescriptions designed for patients with heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, and any number of diseases and health problems.”

"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true."
- Richard Bach

"Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion"
- Rudy Tomjanovich

"The purpose of any athletic endeavor is to challenge human limits both on and off the playing field."

"Winners never quit & quitters never win."

"Do not feel entitled to anything you do not sweat or struggle for."
- Marian Wright Edelman

"Excellence is not an end result, it is a process. It demands vision, discipline and an absolute commitment to settle for nothing but the best."

"Quitting is only a shortcut to losing."

"Losers quit when they're tired. Champions quit when they hold the gold."

"Champions believe in themselves even if no one else does."

"Winners make goals, losers make excuses."

"Success is measured by effort."

"Some people dream of success while others wake up & achieve it."

"All glory comes from daring to begin."

"Accept challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."

"If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record."

"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results."

"Persevere and never fear."

"Strive for excellence, not perfection."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
- Elinor Smith

"Improve your performance by improving your attitude."

"Gold medals don't make champions. Hard work does."

"Champions expect pain, endure pain & never complain."

"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle."

"The will to win is not worth a nickel unless you have the will to practice."

"Each day you don't practice is one more day you have to practice to get better."

"Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner."

"You win some, you lose some. But you always try again."

"The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear."
- Bruce Lee

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
- Winston Churchill

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
- Haywood Hale Broun, quoted in James A. Michener's Sports in America

"A vigorous 5-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."
- P.White, Physician 1886-1973

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
- George Orwell

"Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink."
- Marv Harshman, coach

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
—Vince Lombardi

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
- Michael Jordan

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden

"If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat."
- Herschel Walker

"Most games are lost, not won."
- Casey Stengel

"The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost."
- George Shultz

"Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records."
- William A. Ward

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."
- Charlie Finley

"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do."
- A J Kitt

"There’s no substitute for guts."
- Paul “Bear” Bryant

"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser."
- Lou Holtz

"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."
- Joe Paterno

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."
- Joe Paterno

"We must either find a way or make one."
- Hannibal

"It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."
- Muhammad Ali

"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
- Honore de Balzac

"Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time."
- Greg LeMond

"To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
- Tony Dorsett

"Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates."
- Magic Johnson

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."
- Bo Jackson

"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
- Sir Edmund Hillary

"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
- Gale Sayers

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination"
- Tommy Lasorda

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
- Coach Darrel Royal

"You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge."
- Damon Runyon

"It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you're tired—you quit when the gorilla is tired."
- Robert Strauss

"If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it."
- Ronnie Lott

"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."
- Tom Landry

"It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice."
- Eric Lindros

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vidal Sassoon

"The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion."
- Jean-Claude Killy

"Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise, and cross-training simply gives you the best return on your investment—balanced fitness with minimum injury risk and maximum fun."
- Paula Newby-Fraser

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
- Amelia Earhart

"Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time."
- Lou Brock

"Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you."
- Satchel Paige

"If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average."
- M.H. Alderson

"When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, “I’m gonna prove you wrong.”
- Picabo Street

"The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I’m starting to believe that."
- Dan O’Brien

"There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There’s no such thing as life in-between."
- Pat Riley

"The game isn’t over till it’s over."
- Yogi Berra

"Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles."
- Bob Richards, Pole Vaulter

"It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts."
- John Wooden

"I’ll always be Number 1 to myself."
- Moses Malone

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson

"When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important."
- Bill Shoemaker

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Seneca

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime."
- Babe Ruth

"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top."
- O.J. Simpson

"The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players."
- Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach

"When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winner’s circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor."
- Pat Riley

"Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it."
- Chuck Noll, ex-Pittsburgh Steelers Coach

"When your are playing for the national championship, it’s not a matter of life or death. It’s more important than that."
- Duffy Daugherty

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy

"My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: “Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win....Channel your energy. Focus.”
- Carl Lewis

"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do."
- Dennis Waitley

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison

"A ship in the harbor is safe. But that’s not what ships are built for."
- Anonymous

"The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves."
- Anonymous

"Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big."
- Anonymous

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: The would is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
- Anonymous

"You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage."
- Joe Namath

"Winning isn’t everything, wanting to is."
- Anonymous

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

"Confidence is a very fragile thing."
- Joe Montana

"If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race—it’s up to you."
- Dave Scott, Triathlete

"I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win."
- Arnold Palmer

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods."
- JFK

"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them."
- Robert Frost

"The more I train, the more I realize I have more speed in me."
- Leroy Burrell

"Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!"
- Pat Riley

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape."
- Author unknown

"Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers

"I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition."
- Jean-Claude Killy

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
- Samuel Johnson

"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself".
- Shannon Miller

"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability."
- Bruce Jenner

"In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing."
- Van Morrison

"He who stops being better stops being good."
- Oliver Cromwell

"The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."
- Steve Young

"When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers."
- Kikuyu proverb

"I know that I’m never as good or bad as any single performance. I’ve never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena."
- Charles Barkley

"A winner never whines."
- Paul Brown

"What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence."
- Terry Bradshaw

"Ain’t no chance if you don’t take it."
- Guy Clark

"In war there is no substitute for victory."
- Douglas MacArthur

"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do."
- Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead

"The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you."
- Elmer Davis

"I think I’ve always had the shots. But in the past, I’ve suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I’m starting to get away from that and my mental discipline and commitment to the game are much better. I think I’m really taking a good look at the big picture. That’s the difference between being around for the final or watching the final from my sofa at home."
- Andre Agassi

"When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!"
- Pat Riley

"You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit."
- Joe Paterno

"You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional."
- Joe Paterno

"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
- Ray Knight

"To be prepared is half the victory."
- Miguel Cervantes

Failure "Knock the 't' off the 'can't'" --George Reeves

"Never give up and never give in." --Hubert H. Humphrey

"It's the mind that tells you when to give up." --Merlene Ottey

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." --Unknown

"Don't be afraid of failure. You can't fail if you never tried." --Unknown

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." —Beverely Sills

"Anyone who has never made mistake has never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." --Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt (United States President) at the outset of WWII

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars." --Les Brown

"Being a runner, you are willing to fail every time you run a race. Failure isn't all that bad." --Unknown

"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures." --Bernard M. Baruch

"No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind." --Napoleon Hill

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." --Napoleon

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'" --Clare Boothe Luce

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." --Unknown

"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." --Unknown

Expert: A person who knows tomorrow why today's prediction failed. --Unknown

"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital." --Unknown

"Failure is never fatal and success is never final." --Unknown

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." --Bill Cosby

"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself." --Dr. Porsche

The only way to prove you're a good sport is to lose. --Ernie Banks

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." --Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Alva Edison

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much." --Joan Collins

"Never give in! Never, never, never, never, never, never. In nothing great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." --Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability." Flower A. Newhouse

"No project is a complete failure, it can always serve as a negative example." --Unknown

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." --Robert F. Kennedy

"The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but their failures." --Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failures...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, (1901-1909)

"The worst form of failure is the failure to try." --Fortune Cookie

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." --Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out. It's the grain of sand in your shoe." Robert Service

"Sweet are the uses of adversity." --William Shakespeare

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." --Chinese proverb

"My life has been nothing but a failure." --Claude Monet

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." --George Eliot

"When all else fails, read the instructions." Cann's Axiom

"In this country, when you finish second, no one knows your name." --Frank McGuire

"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost." --Martina Navritalova

Success "Success is not permanent, neither is failure." --Unknown

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." --Billy Jean King

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." --Woody Allen

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." --George Patton (1885-1945), General, U.S. Army

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." --Dale Carnegie

"Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible." --Abraham Lincoln

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself." --Isak Dinesen

"Success rests in having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, 'I have found my hero and he is me'" George Sheehan

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them. You can meet the challenges, you can overcome those obstacles, you can achieve success by boldly stepping forward. Once you do, you'll wonder why you ever hesitated. -- Ralph Marston

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." -- Joe Paterno

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it." --Stan Smith

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie

"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman." --Maryon Pearson

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." --The Eighty Percent Principle Redux: Woody Allen

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"If we learn for each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then, at the end, we will have fulfilled our potential and performed well." --Dr. Porsche

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. --Vince Lombardi

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." --Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Never replicate a successful experiment." --Fett's Law

"Success covers a multitude of blunders." --George Bernard Shaw

"Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan." --Unknown

Success is a journey, not a destination." --Unknown

"Success is achieving the top of the food chain." --Unknown

"Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage." --Charles Luckman (1909- )

"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong." --Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

"Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you travelled from where you started." --Unknown

"Success, as I see it, is a result, not a goal." --Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue." --Seneca

"The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep." --Unknown

"There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way." --Christopher Morley

"To climb the ladder of success you must get through the crowd at the bottom." --Unknown

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. --Vidal Sassoon

"In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result." -- James Lane Allen

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted." --David Bly

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value." --Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"We have seen too much success to have become obsessed with failure." --Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)

"There are a lot of people that have a dream. You've got to then make the next step and say, OK, now what is exactly the thing I am going to do to make this dream turn into reality? That's when you have to go to work, and that's where it gets difficult."

"It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself, 'I can be there.'"
- 1979

"I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun."

"I called the company and they had no interest in ever doing a Hummer as a civilian vehicle. I flew to the factory, met with the chairman of the board and the whole board, and convinced them why the Hummer ought to be built and ought to be built right away. They bought in on it. They said, will you help us with the promotion? I said, yes. I will help you for free. I don't want anything. I buy my Hummers."

Who'd play the lead if someone made The Arnold Schwarzenegger Story? "I haven't found anyone out there that really could do it, you know, that has all the characteristics, someone that has the accent and the physical development and the right height. And then, of course, the studly looks."

"Money doesn't make me happy. It doesn't matter to me if I get 48 or 50 million dollar."
- 1992

"It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat."

"What I am most happy about is that I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me when I daydream that it's almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don't have to be uptight to get there because I already feel like I'm there, that it's just a matter of time."

"Bodybuilding ska vara roligt eftersom du får en känsla av tillfredsställelse, som är svår att förklara. Det känns bra att få pump. Det är faktiskt den bästa känslan en byggare kan ha."
Ur filmen Pumping lron, 1975

"This was the first time I knew pain could become pleasure. We were benefiting from the pain, breaking the pain barrier. We looked at this pain as a positive thing, because we grew. It was a fantastic feeling to gain size from pain. The whole idea of pain became a pleasure trip."

"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."

"Fortsätt vara hungrig på livet, håll dig vid god hälsa, var en gentleman, tro starkt på dig själv och du passerar alla gränser."
1975

"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."

"När jag var tio år drömde jag om att komma till Amerika och vara annorlunda jämfört med alla andra."
1979

"Sports don't just make our bodies get in better shape, they don't just make us get stronger, or faster or more flexible. But sports also teaches us lessons for life. Lessons such as discipline, lessons such as setting goals, how to deal with failure, camaraderie and all the things we need later in life."
Presskonferens för Goodwill Games 21 juli 1990

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

Here's what Arnold Schwarzenegger said about "Before and After" Photos:

"We all have a way of failing to notice small gradual changes, but photographs can quickly remind us just how great the overall change has been. Have some photos taken of yourself in a bathing suit from the front, rear and sides. Then put them away for a while, along with a record of your weight and measurements at the time the photos were taken.

When you think you've made some progress, repeat the process, and compare the "before" photos with the "after." You may be very surprised at the differences that become apparent when you study the two sets of pictures.

Continue to do this. The photographs will not only help you evaluate the results of your training during each of the intervals, but will also create a permanent history of the changes in your body as a result of your weight training program. You will probably discover you are smiling a lot more."

(Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men, by Arnold Schwarzenegger with Bill Dobbins, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981, p. 29)

"Min hemlighet består av tre delar som jag lärde mig på gymmet - självförtroende, positiv mental attityd och ärligt hårt arbete. Många känner till dessa principer men det är väldigt få personer som kan praktisera detta. Varje dag hör jag någon som säger 'Jag är för fet. Jag måste gå ner 5 kg, men det går inte.' 'Jag står stilla i min utveckling, det händer ingenting.' Jag skulle hata mig själv om jag hade en sådan attityd, om jag var så svag."
Ur The Education of a Bodybuilder, 1979

"The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character."
March 1997

"People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7!"
1993

"When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me."

"Den jag verkligen skulle vilja jobba med är Clint Eastwood. Han är min stora idol."
1991

"When I was in Stay Hungry years ago, I said to myself, 'There is Clint Eastwood up there and Charles Bronson and Warren Beatty, so why not me too? It seems pretty empty up there, so what the hell? There is room for one more. I can squeeze in there'."

"When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me."

"This is the worst birthday ever, because one third of my life has gone."
Arnold Schwarzenegger firar sin femtionde födelsedag 1997

"Everytime I was in a competition in bodybuilding my heart was always pounding, and I had a great fear of the humiliation of losing. We never stay at the top all the time. No one ever has, and no one ever will."
1993

"Jag var för grov för att bli filmskådis, jag hade ett för långt namn, förfärlig accent. Jaha."
1993

"It is as satisfying to me as coming is - you know, as having sex with a woman and coming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am, like, getting the feeling of coming in the gym. I'm getting the feeling of coming at home. I'm getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up. When I pose out in front of 5.000 people I get the same feeling. So I'm coming day and night."
Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about bodybuilding and sex in Pumping Iron 1975

"Let's put it this way. I will change diapers, but I don't exactly stand in line for it."
Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about his new baby, 1992

"Allt i mitt liv har varit så otroligt bra att jag alltid tror att jag ska höra min mor skrika: 'Arnold! Dags att vakna!' och då slår jag upp ögonen och är tillbaka i den lilla byn i Österrike. Så har jag tänkt många gånger men jag hoppas att allt detta inte är en dröm."
1995

"I was always interested in proportion and perfection. When I was fifteen, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me."

"Jag skulle vilja tacka min underbara fru, Maria Shriver, som är den bästa kvinnan i världen. Om jag inte nämner henne... ingen sex på en vecka."
Sagt under ett seminarium på University of Wisconsin, maj 1996

"The best exercises for your health is humping and pumping."

"De flesta som tränar har en väldigt vag uppfattning om hur de skulle vilja se ut. De säger inte 'Jag kommer att bli en vinnare.' Ibland är det helt otroligt vad mycket negativa impulser det cirkulerar på gymet. Jag hör bodybuilders som klagar: 'Oh nej, inte ett set till.' Sådant bara förstör. Jag har alltid sagt att om man tränar för ingenting, då är det förkastad ansträngning."
Ur The Education of a Bodybuilder, 1979

"Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Suppose a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all."

"Don't think of him as a Republican. Think of him as the man I love, and if that doesn't work, think of him as the man who can crush you."
Maria Shriver, when she introduced Arnold to Ted Kennedy

"As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: ‘I can be there.’"

"We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There’s really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer."

"My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitiation at all."

"The best activitities for your health are pumping and humping." - 1975

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer." - 1975

"Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day..." - 1979

'Stay hungry, stay healthy, ba a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.' - 1975

"The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing."

"My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport."