Ronnie Coleman Quotes

The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.

There was a moment in time where I was really focused on the Navy and I followed through with it - I passed the test. I was happy with myself because I was accomplishing something and I was really working towards a goal. That was the first true thing I invested my energy in.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.

Every day, I need to get better. I need to get stronger. I need to get faster.

Sport instils discipline, and it's a distraction.

When I read or study, I don't do it for the degree - if I fail, it doesn't matter, but it just takes me out of this world where you're the centre of attention all the time. You just become a normal bloke when you're setting yourself those kinds of targets.

I think if you want to prove something to yourself and not fail there's only one choice and that's to work.

Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.

Every day I get up and I try to do the very best I can.

I just like to keep pushing myself and the sport.

I always train my weaknesses and work on my shortcomings - in the gym and outside the gym. Ha!

I practice very hard. I take care of myself, and I'm young.

Wrestling pushes me, makes me accountable. It makes me who I am. I never felt I was just a normal person. Then I felt too normal, lazy, sedentary.

Even though running is work for me, I always miss it if I take a break. A lot of people find running relaxing, but I can never switch off from timing and competing against myself.

Keep training harder and always challenge yourself.

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.

Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and if I'm completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It's only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.

Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.