The 35+ Best Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes About Gym

Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes About Gym – Many know Arnold Schwarzenegger for his role in the ‘Terminator’ films and other media works. While the man has plenty of accomplishments in the film industry, he also holds recognition for his bodybuilding career and time as a politician. As someone who has done much in life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has given his share of inspiring lines. Among those memorable lines, you’ll find plenty of talk about the gym. If you find yourself with mixed feelings about the gym, here are some memorable Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes About Gym to get you interested in working out more:

• “You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.”
  
• “The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”
  
• “The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self-confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.”
  
• “The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is… The Pump.”
  
• “To go in the direction that I went takes a lot of work. And I don’t think you can do the work – the five or six hours of working out a day – if you don’t have a clear goal or know why you’re doing it. If you just hang out at the gym and train for five or six hours a day without a goal is almost impossible.”
  
• “Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.”
  
• “What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.”
  
• “The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.”
  
• “There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.”
  
• “People say, My God, you’re so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.”
  

Other Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes About Working Out

• “I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.”
  
• “Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?”
  
• “You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.”
  
• “Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.”
  
• “Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.”
  
• “I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.”
  
• “I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.”
  
• “You don’t really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn’t even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.”
  
• “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.”
  
• “You can have results or excuses. Not both.”

Additional Lines About Strength and More

• “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.”
  
• “Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”
  
• “Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.”
  
• “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
  
• “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.”
  
• “With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself because if you don’t, no one else will.”
  
• “So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don’t be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.”
  
• “The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”
  
• “Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.”
  
• “Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard, and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.”
  
• “What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”
  
• “The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”
  
• “What is interesting about failure is that it is more important as a learning tool than a victory. If you win, you don’t have to sit and think out a different approach.”
  
• “None of my rules of success will work unless you do.”
  
• “You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
  
• “Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”

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