Dwayne Johnson Quotes

Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.

I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.

One of my goals is to have this incredible body. I want to be strong, to be ripped.

When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical.

I want to get more muscly.

I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I do a bit of work on my bum, but, like, I don't have a Dylan Bruce bum.

It's not really in my genes to be walking around looking like a body builder.

You often see him Ronaldo topless and his physique is awesome. It drives everyone on and we all want to have a body like his.

Big E, he's a strong dude. Ryback's a strong dude. But if you put Batista next to those guys, he was 6'6'', 320 lbs. Those guys are pushing 6'1''-6'2''. But Batista was wide. He was a big old dude. Those guys could beat him in a bench press contest, but I'd rather look like Dave.

Compared to some other guys at 205, of course, I'll be a little small. But I've never tried to just physically go for it, bulk up, lift weights.

I'm strong, but my arms are skinny; they're never going to get big and bulky like a football player.

I don't have big muscles.

I grew up not really seeing a lot of leads in the industry that weren't like - and I look up to these people - but like Ryan Gosling and Christian Bale.

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 do squats because I want my butt to be bigger.

I looked up to action heroes such as Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Jean-Claude van Damme because I liked the attitude and determination they portrayed.

As a man, you think, 'Hey, man, I want to be like Bond or Tintin.'

Motivating yourself, I think having big strong legs, that's pretty cool. Having a big VMOs [the teardrop-shaped muscle above your knee] is always nice. But, the thing is, when you see guys who are clearly gym junkies who only do bicep curls all day every day, and you see them walking down the street ...'Mate, what about the legs?'.

The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.

If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.

As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.

We have to have positive male role models.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.