To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.
All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.
Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is.
If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance!
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting
The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment
At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big.
I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.
If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.