It is sometimes very hard to motivate yourself to train.  I wanted this post to just be a list of quotes about training and perhaps they will help motivate you, or at least you can procrastinate for 5 mins whilst you read them – I’ve tried to include ones that may appeal to different people.  Some of them you may think don’t apply to you, but when you think about it, you can relate to each one I’m sure, even it is away from training and in life itself.

Please add your own ones at the bottom:

‘No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training…..what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable’ – Socrates

‘Passion trumps everything’ – Dave Tate

‘The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment’ – Justin Langer

‘Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you’ – Jack LaLanne

‘Pain is weakness leaving the body’ – Unknown

‘A big chest without a big back is like steak without potatoes’ – Unknown

‘To be number one, you have to train like you’re number two’ – Maurice Green

‘Take care of your body, its’s the only place you have to live’ – Jim Rohn

‘To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear’ – Buddha

‘I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit.  Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’ – Muhammed Ali

‘Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.’  Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘I do it as a therapy.   I do it as something to keep me alive.  We all need a little discipline.  Exercise is my discipline.’ – Jack LaLanne

‘A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs’ – Joan Welsh

‘The pain you feel today is the strength you’ll feel tomorrow’- Unknown.

‘The difference between someone who is in shape, and someone who is not in shape, is the individual who is in shape work out even when they do not want to.’ – Unknown.

‘The only easy day was yesterday’ – Navy SEALS

‘One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life’ – Unknown.

‘Intensity builds immensity’ – Kevin Levrone

‘If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise’ – Unknown

‘When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no ‘I’ll start tomorrow.  Tomorrow is disease’ – V.L. Allinear

‘When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot to exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.’ – Herophiles

‘If it weren’t for the fact that the TV and fridge are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.’- Joey Adams

‘Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness’ – Edward Stanley

‘Most of us think we don’t have time to exercise.  What a distorted paradigm!  We don’t have time not to.  We’re talking about 3-6 hours a week,  a minimum of of 30 minutes a day or every other day.  That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162-165 hours of the week.; – Stephen Covey.

‘Keep your blood clean, your body lean and your mind sharp’ – Henry Rollins

‘Pain is only temporary….eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.  If I quit, however, it lasts forever.’ – Lance Armstrong