Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.
The c**k isn't a muscle so it doesn't grow in relation to the shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can't make it bigger through exercise, that's for sure.
If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts.
For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.
I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.
Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it's the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.
When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.
I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.
I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.
There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.
Just because your muscles start to protest, doesn't mean you have to listen.
The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.
I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.
The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.
Your muscles cannot get "longer" without some rather radical orthopedic surgery.