Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes

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

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'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 like to be strong.

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.

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

I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

Weight training keeps you fit and helps build your strength.

I do some weightlifting, a lot of different weight stuff, strength and conditioning stuff, a little bit of everything.

I'm a big runner, and I like to lift heavy. I'm not one for those little two-pound dumbbells - my goal is to be super-muscular in my 40s.

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.

Mostly, I was into powerlifting when I was in high school. And I just continued to train the same way I was taught - to powerlift. Once I started doing bodybuilding, there were no real differences, just different exercises. A different way of training with more repetitions, but it was still the same lifting of very heavy weights to get stronger.

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

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

I'm not really into weight training.

When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.

Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.

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 lift quite heavy weights, but unfortunately no one believes me.

I've never lifted a single weight in my life.

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