I'll add more as time goes by... Don't know why the quotes show up as a ? ..Pretty annoying.

“About diet and training : THERE'S NO SECRET! Just TRAIN HARD, EAT GOOD. DON'T think about shortcut. In Bodybuilding there is NO SHORTCUT.” -Sami Al Haddad

“If you DON’T have that MENTAL ATTITUDE, you’ll NEVER MAKE IT because it’s so HARD. A lot of people give into it and then they QUIT.” -Charles Glass

“Without intensity, and drive, and determination, and aim, and focus...you can't get nowhere.” –Zack Khan

“Every time I've gotten ready for a show, since the first show I did, I always try to picture myself WINNING.” -Evan Centopani

“You can train all you want and you can have the most muscular body, but If you don't know how to display it, your not gonna win.” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The WILL that you need to go to the gym EVERY DAY. The WILL that makes you go into the FORCED REPS. The WILL that makes you go BEYOND when your doing your 500 POUND reps in your SQUATS and you CAN’T do another rep, and your body’s SHAKING, It’s the WILL that makes you go ONE MORE TIME DOWN and STRUGGLE UP ONE MORE TIME.” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Concentration was one of the things I've learned in Bodybuilding more than anything. Focusing, concentrate on one thing, no matter if there is a bomb exploding around you, you do not lose your concentrating” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“When your out there partying, horsing around, SOMEONE OUT THERE, at the same time, is WORKING HARD. Someone is getting SMARTER. Someone is WINNING! If you want to WIN, there is absolutely no way around HARD, HARD WORK!” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The important thing is that you ALWAYS CHALLENGE YOURSELF. I am a strong believer of the philosophy of staying hungry. Whenever I have achieved a goal, then immediately after that I ask myself, 'what other challenge can I put up?' I am a strong believer of conquering, achieving, of climbing, of getting higher and higher to the top because that's, in my opinion, of what life is about - LIVING!” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“An artist would just slap on some clay on each side and does it maybe the easier way, we go through the harder way because we have to do them on the human body.” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The severity of the training. The severity of the pain. the sacrifices that need to be made. The amount of hours we spend in the gym. the food supplements we had to take. The food we had to eat all the time.” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“That's, in my opinion what life is all about. Living...rich, rather then just existing and just wasting away at your life since we only have one.” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“You can actually create a vision of what your body will look like. Then you mold your body closer, closer to that vision, and you will turn that vision into reality.” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I enjoyed training everyday. Pumping up. Loved it. Being the BEST build men in the WORLD. Going from one Mr. Universe contest to the next. Winning all of them. Thirteen world championship titles.” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Don't listen to the Nay-Sayers. I love it when someone says, 'No one has ever done this before.' Because when I do it, that means that I'M THE FIRST ONE THAT HAS DONE IT. Pay no attention to the people that say, 'IT CAN'T BE DONE.'.” –Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The physiques keep getting bigger and bigger WITHOUT MUCH ATTENTION to overall proportion, and balance, and definition - what we call symmetry. I would like to see some leader bodies come along with MORE EMPHASIS on detail, and definition, and proportion, but it DOESN'T seem to be happening.” –Frank Zane

“Train in a sensible way. It's NOT gonna happen over night. Don't try to get in shape in one day, or one week, or even a month. TAKE YOUR TIME. Do a good job. Take photos. Learn what you look like and VISUALIZE what you'd like to look like. Don't fall for any kind of SCHEMES of getting big QUICK. Do NOT bulk up. Don't get big quick. If you can follow that, you'll develop a GREAT BODY and you'll have it for a long time. If you end up taking SHORTCUTS or taking STEROIDS or other performance enhancing drugs, it's gonna lead to you probably dropping out before you reach your potential. DON'T DO IT!” –Frank Zane

“Every year there is controversy surrounding my placement. One year I'm second in the world by comparison to somebody that's fifty pounds heavier and five inches taller. The only criteria for which they place ahead of me is size and size ALONE. I'M A LITTLE BIT DISILLUSIONED WITH THE JUDGING PROCEDURE. I'm sure a lot of the fans are too. I get a lot of letters every day being FRUSTRATED with the current TREND in bodybuilding in that they've gotten away from what bodybuilding is all about. Bodybuilding is about building muscle and size there's no question but to the exclusion of symmetry, proportion, definition, presentation.” -Shawn Ray

“It always goes back to 'I have a dream...' I even went so far as to put, 'The Dream Continues' on one of my photos. I went so far as to say, 'I Have A Dream' on one of my T-shirts that I was marketing. And I still say, 'THE DREAM BECOMES REALITY.'” -Shawn Ray

“I'm up on the Billboard on the Mandalay Bay.” -Shawn Ray

“Second place is the worst place for you to be on that Olympia stage, disregarding the prize money. Most people like, 'You should be happy. You should be thankful. It's fifty-thousand dollars. Your second in the world.' ...SECOND PLACE SUCKS!” -Shawn Ray

“They're is a champion inside of you and whatever it is that you choose to turn that champion loose toward attaining whatever dream that it is that you have is your own. Do it and you can.” -Kai Greene

“It was the first time in my life that I ever experienced a SUCCESS that had nothing to do with my pedigree - where I came from. It had more and all to do with just MY OWN ABILITY TO WORK REALLY HARD, and if I work hard at it, I can achieve something that was in MY OWN HANDS TO DO.” –Kai Greene

“YOUR DREAMS are always gonna be the most important to YOU than they will be to anybody else. So keep DREAMING. Keep BELIEVING. Keep PRESSING FORWARD. So, to all those warriors out there - BE ENCOURAGED!” –Kai Greene

“I believe you can predict the future. You can predict the future if your saying, 'In this moment, I'm gonna do what I am supposed to do.' What I'm supposed to do is determined by what my goals are.” -Kai Greene

“Make no mistake about it. I sleep on the FLOOR. In a very, very small room focused on making this thing happen. The road to being one of the BEST, I think, can be a VERY LONELY ONE. I HAVE BEEN WILLING TO ACCEPT THAT **LONELINESS** AT WHATEVER COST! Some people DON'T understand that - at times - not even your woman...Not to allow that to deter me in any way because I BELIEVE this to be THE MOST IMPORTANT PURSUIT OF MY LIFE. Some people can spend a LIFE TIME trying to FIND THEMSELVES or trying to FIND a CAUSE for them that is WORTHY of their ABSOLUTE BEST EFFORT of their SWEAT and their SACRIFICE.” -Kai Greene

“What Am I doing with my life? Am I living it? Or am I just, you know, going to some humdrum job that I DON'T WANNA REALLY BE AT, doing some miniscule task, getting paid to be a MINDLESS DRONE. Or am I out there living life? ON MY TERMS. THE WAY I WANT TO LIVE IT. DOING THE THINGS THAT I WANNA DO. Make no mistake about it, as hard as this is, this is what I wanna do. This is what I wanna do. Some people can make fun of it. They can crack JOKES. They can sit back and ANALYZE and CRITICIZE and make all the fun they want, but I'M LIVING MY LIFE. I’M DOING IT! What are YOU!? I’ve found MY PASSION. I’ve CREATED my true calling in life. I'M LIVING LIFE ON MY TERMS. Life is for the living!” -Kai Greene

“You could go to the gym and quickly become this portrait of BARELY CONTROLLED FURY, and it was OK! Maybe other things could have been the vehicle to channel that stuff. But for me, you know, it became bodybuilding...This place where I COULD LET GO. Where 'F*CK YOU!' didn't matter. And it wasn't something that made people look at you in fear or feel threatened by you or you had to apologize for being angry or intense. In fact, the more intense you could be the better. How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500 pounds off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700 pounds up, squat down to the floor, and stand back up. So what your eyes are blood shot. So what your bones feel like snapping. What are you gonna do?” –Kai Greene

“I'VE PAID THE PRICE. I've worked hard. I've done a good job. I went after what I was going after. I did what I WANTED to do and I was SUCCESSFUL at it! I've EARNED the right to do it! That feels good to me. That makes me almost wanna cry in joy.” -Kai Greene

“A successful person can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others throw at them.” -Kai Greene

“I just got a burning desire to be successful in life. I've always had it. I was pretty much born with it. I wake up every morning with it.” -Ronnie Coleman

“Reason why I do all that. Put my body through all that. It’s because I love it!” –Ronnie Coleman

“Everybody wanna be a Bodybuilder...don't nobody want to lift this HEAVY ASS WEIGHT....I'LL DO IT THOUGH!” -Ronnie Coleman

“That was SUPER HEAVY!” -Ronnie Coleman

“Ain't nothing to it but to do it...2,000 POUND leg press!” -Ronnie Coleman

“Anything can be done. I set my mind for it. I said I'mma try to be the best I can be. I was very focused. Very determined. A lot of people said I couldn't do it. But you always have to stay positive and stay focused. I truly believed in myself.” -Jay Cutler

“We all had dreams when we were kids. Some kids dreamed about being professional football or basketball player. Others want to be doctors or lawyers. For me, I wanted to be a Bodybuilder. I wanted to be the top guy in the sport.” -Jay Cutler

“To achieve a certain goal - YOU HAVE TO GIVE UP  A LOT OF THINGS IN LIFE.” -Jay Cutler

“You need a hero in Bodybuilding. It’s just like the Marvel Comics – you had your superheroes. You have Batman. You have Superman. You have Spider-Man. When you relate to someone – when you relate to a physique or personality - that’s how you adapt to your hero.” –Jay Cutler

“You have to focus on your food and nutrition. That's super, super important. MIGHT AS WELL NOT EVEN GO TO THE GYM AND WORK OUT IF YOUR NUTRITION IS NOT INTACT...Consistency. Stay with it. You HAVE TO do this day in, day out. It becomes a LIFESTYLE.“ -Jay Cutler

“If you want it bad enough, you'll get it done” -Phil Heath

“My competition is myself.” -Phil Heath

“We all have a passion for it, and we all just love seeing our own bodies evolve into something very artistic in our own personal masterpiece. That's what Bodybuilding really is.” -Phil Heath

“Just expect it to be a war. I'm coming to win. I've second, I've been fifth, I've been third at that show. I kinda know what it feels like to have all these emotions and different placements. And now there is only one more spot to go on, and that's to be NUMBER ONE.” -Phil Heath

“If I don't win...I'll DIE.” -Rich Gaspari

“It's NOT the steroids that make a champion. It's the HARD TRAINING, DEDICATION, the DIETING, the SACRIFICE, and the GENETICS that person has what makes that champion.” -Rich Gaspari

“I believe that it's a lot of hard work. I got in that gym, I'm working out six days a week, six hours a day. A lot of it is in the mind. This is my job, right now, all I'm doing as I'm a Professional Bodybuilder.” -Rich Gaspari

“How do you tell somebody to back off when your sport is based on EXTREMES. The key is just educating people because a lot of people don’t realize there is such a thing as NATURAL bodybuilding. They just ASSUME that bodybuilding goes hand in hand with steroids and that most bodybuilders are on steroids...I try not to let what others are doing influence MY decisions because I feel like you got to make decisions for YOURSELF. You got to be TRUE TO YOURSELF because if you let what OTHERS are doing INFLUENCE what YOU DO – YOU REALLY HAVE NOTHING LEFT OF YOURSELF!” – L.N.

“MOST OF YOUR COMPETITION RIGHT NOW IS STILL SLEEPING, AND YOUR ALREADY SWEATING. COMBINE THOSE DAYS, WHAT DO U GOT? DOMINANCE MOTHER****ER!" -Greg Plitt

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.“ -Mark Twain

“Moderation in bodybuilding is a vice; Moderation in discipline is failure”

"Hard training, dieting, sweating, grueling workouts. I NEVER GAVE UP as much as I wanted to. I just kept a mind set of, 'I wanna turn Professional. Nothings gonna stop me. Nothings gonna get in my way.”

“Just say to yourself: How bad do I want this? Am I working harder than the person who will be standing next to me?”

“People ask why I train so much and eat like I do all the time. Well the answer is simple: I will not allow somebody with twice the genetics and half the determination be better than me.”

“I get up, eat, train, go back home, eat, take a nap. Eat again. Train again at night. Eat again. Go to bed. START IT ALL OVER!”

“Bodybuilding is much more than a sport, IT’S A LIFESTYLE!”

“Consistency with dedication and dieting. It’s a TWENTY-FOUR HOUR SPORT! It’s NOT like football or something else where you go out for the day and that's it. It’s a LIFESTYLE.”

“It's TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY! NON-STOP! You take it wherever you go.”

“We're ALWAYS doing something to be on that stage. EVERYTHING, EVERY MINUTE, EVERY HOUR has some PURPOSE.”

“A lot of people ask me about diet. They ask me how much percent is diet? How much percent is training? Training is 100% of course, but diet is the other 100%. There is no 20% or 50% one and 50% the other.”

“That's why when I train, it's ALL WORK AND NO PLAY. But training isn't everything. Proper dieting, sleeping, aerobics, and posing so when you on that stage, you know and you feel that you're a winner.”

“That's why your pro because people can't do what your doing right now. That's why your pro. That's what it takes.”

“Your right, it’s EASIER to eat French fries than it is to have steel cut oats. It’s EASIER to sit on the couch than it is to hit the weights. It’s EASIER to turn to ice-cream than it is to join a BAND OF BROTHERS WHO MAKE THE MOST OUT OF THEIR DAY. It’s EASIER to say, ‘SCREW IT! I GIVE UP!’ rather than going out there and doing the dam thing.  I’m NOT gonna sit here and be a shoulder support to root you on and tell you that you can do this. I’m NOT here to tell you about sun shine and the rainbows. If you DON’T BELIEVE IT, THAN YOU SURE AS HELL WON’T ACHIEVE IT. It’s gotta be UP TO YOU IF YOU WANT IT BAD ENOUGH - OTHERWISE TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT. BE AVERAGE! At the end of the day, you’re the ONLY one capable of hurting YOURSELF. I NEVER said that this was going to be easy, all I said is that IT WOULD BE WORTH IT!”

I'm the Thirsty who continually chases mirages in my DREAMS. After all, what is life if there isn't anything to look forward to? How do we live if we aren't consistently running after our DREAMS. If we don't DREAM, then we have died inside. We have nothing left but empty wishes stranded in a vast land of desert oasis. For a DREAM is our compass which leads us to our destiny. I was born with my eyes closed - I might as well live the rest of my life DREAMING!

A goal/dream to me is an adventure. That is what life should be about. A "hike" of knowing where your going, but not knowing how your going to get there. Seeing the trail, but not knowing what will jump out of the bushes. The excitement, the thrill, the suspense, the drama, and ultimately, the feeling of such happiness of one's achievement that has long dreamed of, and now a reality.

What matters is NOT getting from A to Z, but the significance of what is attached to it, for that answer is found from B to Y!

Just when you thought you can't reach for the stars,
I promise you, if you leave your hand up there long enough,
it will come out and reach for yours! Never give up on your DREAMS!
There IS a star out there WAITING to reach out and meet YOU half way!

Beds are only for those who have accepted failure. Wheelchairs are for those who refuse to give up.

-MERCY01