55 Quotes by Mark Rippetoe

Your ideal body weight as an ectomorph at 6? 0" will be 214.378 lbs. There. Happy? And if you lose or gain a pound, I will have you killed. It is important to be ideal.

A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.

Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.

Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

You can’t make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.

Your muscles cannot get “longer” without some rather radical orthopedic surgery.

You don’t get big and strong from lifting weights – you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights.

There is never an absolute answer to everything, except of course that you have to do your squats.

If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.