Phil Heath Quotes

I own 170 and 155. These are my weight classes.

When I was in NXT, I was able to compete in the IFBB professional bodybuilding industry, and I took so much pride in that.

My first Mr. Olympia was 1991 and that was in Florida against the great Lee Haney, who became Mr. Olympia in 1984, and I started training properly in 1983.

I'm used to big boys. I train with big boys all the time.

I kind of stumbled into this. I used to do karate and then I started reading muscle magazines. Eventually, I began training and competing.

There is a physicality where I had to become a bit bigger to face bigger players.

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.

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.

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

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

I carry a lot of muscle easily.

For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

In 2010, I was ranked top 50 in the deadlift in three different weight classes, and I won my first natural bodybuilding competition.

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

I want to do an action movie where they say, 'Go the gym and get ripped like Linda Hamilton.'

I'd be down to go to 135. I've competed most of my life at that weight.

I like to try to play around 223, 220 pounds. It's a comfortable playing weight.

I quit working in the police force full time only after I won my third Mr. Olympia.

Winning a gold medal means you're the best in the world at that time.

See, I hold myself through my own muscle strength. That is why I'm built like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I was only 30 years old, and the second Mr. Olympia was probably the most outright win in the history of the sport. It literally took the judges two minutes to see the winner, and then they concentrated on who is coming second.

I never started bodybuilding because I thought I'm not big enough, I'm not strong enough.

To be the best you have to win trophies.

I didn't start out planning to be Mr. Olympia I just wanted to be the best that I could be, but my goals changed as I went along. I wanted to be the British champion, and then I wanted to be a pro, then Mr. Olympia.

My first bodybuilding competition was the 2003 NPC Northern Colorado, where I was a light-heavyweight weighing in at 192 lbs. I was very nervous, as it was my first real-life experience being a bodybuilder.