Phil Heath Quotes

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

The importance of lifting weights is it kind of makes me who I am.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Even when I was on vacation after the Olympia, I was looking for gym to train in. Not only was it 24 hours a day, it was 365 days a year. That may have been a little too extreme, but that is what got me there from that little backstreet gym in England to becoming Mr. Olympia.

The mentality is nonstop, to work for what you want, your mind keeping your body in the best shape possible.

I train to be the champion.

I dream of getting to the belt. I know I'm gonna get there. I'm gonna be the champion.

I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.

If I play at a really high level, opportunities will come my way.

I just want to work my game and I believe I can do that.

I started messing around in my teen years but didn't really begin training properly until the age of 21. I did a lot of reading prior to that - Mike Mentzer, Arthur Jones and all other notable bodybuilding authors - and just came up with a routine that worked for me.

When I was 7 or 8, I'd go to bodybuilding shows with my family because they had friends who were into it, and it became something I wanted to do one day. I wanted to look big and strong.

I train heavy and hard every workout. That's the only way I knew. I know it was the key to my success.

Having a belt is cool, but I'm trying to do more in the sport.

I don't want to be the second-strongest man in the United States or the second-strongest man in the world. They don't get much attention. I definitely want to be No. 1.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

If you sell yourself short before you even start, you'll never know how far you could have gone. Ambition is a wonderful thing and has gotten me farther than I ever thought I'd go.

I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.