81. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky
82. "Good is not enough if better is possible."
83. "A winner never whines."
84. "You shall gain, but you shall pay with sweat, blood, and vomit." - Pavel Tsatsouline
85. "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."
86. "Instead of focusing on the weight of your body going down, focus on the weight of your dumbbells going up!"
87. "I don't care how many reps you do, as long as you lift girl weights you'll get a girl body!"
88. "It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
89. "Stop wishing, start doing!"
90. "Sore. The most satisfying pain."
91. "Will is a skill." - Jillian Michaels
92. "Do it with passion, or don't do it at all. Without passion, success is impossible."
93. "Commit to be fit."
94. "Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security." - John F. Kennedy
95. "Motivation will almost always beat mere talent." - Norman R. Augustine
96. "Follow your dreams even if it means standing alone."
97. "Do yourself a favor, and realize that there's no technique in the world that will save you. There are no pills, no secrets, no passwords on the path to greatness. you've got to embrace the pain, push the threshold, and feel the suck, and then you've got to muster the courage to go back six times a week." - Jon Gilson
98. "You're going to have to let it hurt. Let it suck. The harder you work, the better you will look. Your appearance isn't parallel to how heavy you lift, it's parallel to how hard you work." - Joe Manganiello
99. "Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week." - Stephen Covey
100. "There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted." - Thomas de Quincey
Sit Ups
101. "To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life." - William Londen
102. "Chin up beautiful. Your mistakes do not define failure, they define your efforts. We all stumble. But what separates those who succeed from those who fail, is the perseverance to keep moving forward... despite the odds."
103. "No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!" - Tricia Cunningham
104. "Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." - Carol Welch
105. "Never say the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon."
106. "I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing." - Marsha Doble
107. "I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!" - Ellen DeGeneres
108. "It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place." - Bill Loguidice
109. "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." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
110. "Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties." - Hugh Blair
111. "In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up." - Rich Froning Jr.
112. "The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit." - Morihei Ueshiba
113. "In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up." - Rich Froning Jr.
114. "You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits." - Michael Phelps
115. "I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate." - George Burns
116. "Life is about risking everything for a dream no one can see but you."
117. "It's actually pretty simple. Either you do it or you don't."
118. "A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." - Paul Dudley White
119. "Most people give up right before the big break comes.. don't let that person be you." - Michael Boyle
120. "You are what you do. Not what you say you'll do."
121. "You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted." - Ruth E. Renkl
122. "We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising." - Dr. Kenneth Cooper
123. "I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more." - Henry Ward Beecher
124. "Want to learn to eat a lot" Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot." - Anthony Robbins
125. "If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him" He who rules himself rules over the whole world." - Vinoba Bhave
126. "First you feel like dying, then you feel reborn."
127. "The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition." - Thomas Edison
128. "Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumbbell; it starts in your head with a decision." - Toni Sorenson
129. "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."
130. "You are born weak and die weak, what you are in between those two periods of time is up to you."
131. "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
132. "The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard." - Mark Rippetoe
133. "I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10000 times." - Bruce Lee
134. "I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by - you can't run and stay mad!" - Kathrine Switzer
135. "Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, vision."
136. "Sometimes a workout isn't about building muscle or health. it's just therapy."
137. "Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted." - Denis Waitley
138. "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan
139. "A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
140. "Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in the muscles."
141. "Skinny girls look good in clothes; Fit girls look good naked."
142. "Either you run the day, or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn
143. "The physically fit can enjoy their vices." - Lord Percival
144. "No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up!"
145. "Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you."
146. "The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race."
147. "To keep winning, I have to keep improving." - Craig Alexander
148. "You've got what it takes but it takes everything you've got."
149. "Don't wait. The time will never be just right." - Napoleon Hill
150. "Clear your mind of can't." - Samuel Johnson
Fitness
151. "I may not be the strongest, I may not be the fastest, but I'll be darned if I'm not trying my hardest."
152. "To keep winning, I have to keep improving." - Craig Alexander
153. "Mistakes prove that you are trying."
154. "Strive for progress, not perfection."
155. "When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph."
156. "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far." - Thomas Jefferson
157. "A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."
158. "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." - Oprah Winfrey
159. "Successful people to daily what others do occasionally."
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