Ronnie Coleman

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Ain't nuttin' to it,but ta do it!
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Workout
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Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Hard Work
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When you hit failure your workout has just begun.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Workout
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Aint nuttin' but a peanut.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Workout
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My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can't control how they're going to look. I can only control how I look.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Mean
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There's no secrets or magic tricks to being successful in life. It's plain and simple. Work harder than everyone else and the only way to do that is to do it. It may sound silly but it's the truth and there aint nothing to it but to do it!
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Silly
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It is important to have people believe in you. With this support, what you can achieve is limitless.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Believe
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I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Motivational
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Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So, if you're lacking, start squatting!
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Bodybuilding
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I loved challenging myself every day. The weight room was my therapy for everyday life stresses. No matter what I was doing I always wanted to be the best.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Stress
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thank god for pure natural strength
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Thank God
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When you love something as much as I love bodybuilding you don't have to do much extra to push yourself, it just happens. There were some tough times and when those came up I just used my mental strength to push through knowing that my mind controlled everything.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Bodybuilding
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Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Bodybuilding
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I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Focus
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One thing you can't beat in this world is time. I learnt that the hard way. You can't play basketball forever. You can't play football forever. You can't bodybuild forever. I mean you CAN do it, but not at a high level against younger guys who have more time and have not reached their peaks yet. There's only so much the body can do and once you're done, you can't go back in time.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Basketball
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Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Want
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I've been training so long, its second nature to push myself to the limit.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Bodybuilding
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I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Training
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If you take a hammer and hit something over and over again, it's gonna be destroyed. I don't wanna destroy my body cause I want my body to last me as long as it possible can. If you train hard and push it everyday, your body is going to wear out. So I give my body time to recover.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Train Hard
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Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn't mean you should back off your triceps workouts.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Workout
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I know that in order for something to work for me it has to be extremely powerful.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Powerful
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I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Sports
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Recovery is not a gift from clinicians, but the responsibility of us all. We must become confident in our own ability to change our lives, we must give up being reliant on others doing everything for us. We must have the confidence to give up being ill so that we can start being recovered.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Inspirational
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The more I have to do, the better off I am. I'm not really one to sit around and relax and take it easy. I always like having something to do. Even though I'm not competing, I'm going to be making a lot of appearances, doing guest posings and seminars.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Relax
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Training has always been a hobby, and my whole life has revolved around training. It's something I truly love doing. I wanna do what I wanna do and this is something I wrestled with, because I have to make many sacrifices to do what I wanna do.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Sacrifice
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Your body produces a lot less testosterone each and every single year no matter who you are. We are all human, nobody is super human.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Years
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Bodybuilding is a hobby. At least for me it is. I've trained since i was 12 or 13 years old. It's a hobby I just have so much fun with it. I get so much enjoyment from it. To have your job as your hobby - life don't get better than that.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Jobs
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Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with a guy with muscles. I get more people that know me than anything.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Who I Am
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I've never really considered myself as being the best bodybuilder. I always try to let the people decide that. I just try to do the best I can do at whatever it is that I'm doing.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: People
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I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to do. But I always kept the faith and always worked hard on my goals and I finally found out on Sept. 25, 1998, why I was put here - (God) called me here to be Mr. Olympia.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Thinking
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I'm always positive when it comes to professional bodybuilding, hell I'm Mr. Olympia for God's sake. If I'm number one in our sport and I have a negative attitude then our sport don't need me and I don't need our sport. There are problems and controversy in all sports. That's really unavoidable.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Sports
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The next thing I would have to go with is diet because it is so hard and mentally tough. By comparison the training is the easiest of them all because it's my hobby as well as my job.
- Ronnie Coleman
Collection: Jobs