If you don’t think you were born to run you’re not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.
You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.
I didn't want to just be a body building champion. I wanted to be the best body builder of all time.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start.
I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
An active person will remain healthy while a lazy one will become sick.
Don’t make training easy. Make it harder so that you will get better.
Every day of my life, I’m trying to find a different way to get better.
Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.
To be the best and stay there, sweat is necessary.
Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.
The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy. It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.
I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.