Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Alexis Carrel

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Babe Ruth

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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?

Dick Vermeil

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

Abe Lemons

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Bruce Lee

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Andre Agassi

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

Chuck Noll

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Jimmy Smits

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

Lou Holtz

Attitude determines how well you do it.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Bum Phillips

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

Knute Rockne

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Mike Ditka

Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

Mike Ditka

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

Serena Williams

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

Peyton Manning

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.

Henry David Thoreau

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Satchel Paige

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Roberto Duran

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Usain Bolt

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

Usain Bolt

I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

Usain Bolt

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

Usain Bolt

Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

Usain Bolt

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

Usain Bolt

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Van Morrison

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