Joe Manganiello Quotes

I knew I wasn't soft. I knew I could play on this level and I knew that being in the paint was just a physical position that I wasn't strong enough for. I wanted to get myself strong enough where I could be dominant down there.

I need to improve my physical play and get as big and strong as I can.

I lift pretty heavy for my body weight, and I don't do any of that girly stuff like cardio or any light weights. I go really heavy, and that intimidates some guys. I enjoy that.

I like to be strong.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.

I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you're doing it the way I do it.

I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

I've picked up a lot of muscle weight. I have to be a physically strong guy.

Lifting is what's made me stronger and made me look better. Not only does it burn fat amazingly - and I think it's really honed my body - it's also given me the strength in the ring to lift girls up. I can literally lift anything on my shoulders.

I've been doing a lot of deadlifting and squatting for overall strength.

Squats and hang cleans. I love them. You can just feel yourself getting bigger and better.

Working with one of the best strength trainers in the world, I'm getting more dangerous. I'm getting stronger and stronger.

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

I used to be known as one of the strongest guys on the planet.

I was more of a weightlifter.

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.

Even though the weight I'm lifting isn't what it was when I was playing, it's not like I'm not lifting weights that are heavier than the common person would lift. I think a lot of people look at that and say, 'Whoa!'

I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I think offensive linemen generally took the weight room and the workouts much more seriously, because we saw that it was a vital part of our training. We needed to be big and strong, and our muscles needed to be in good shape to handle the beatings.

The true measure of strength is through a squat and deadlift.

I am training a lot harder, gym a lot, more muscle, strengthening my back, my legs, my muscles, my weak areas a lot.