Top 120 Lifting Quotes

After a workout, you definitely have to have a protein shake. I drink my six-pound whey protein all the time, too. I throw some fruit in there – strawberries, blueberries – with some peanut butter and banana, and it gives you all the recovery you need from a hard day of lifting and running.
Rob Gronkowski
Lifting the Champions League trophy would be something Juventus deserve.
Gianluca Vialli
I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.
Angelina Jolie
When I saw ‘Hercules,’ my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of – milk crates. I’m still lifting things. It changed my life.
Sylvester Stallone
People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.
Jeb Bush
Everything is a blessing, even meetings. Whether it’s meetings or running gassers or lifting, it’s an opportunity, and the best thing to do is be thankful for it.
Eric Berry
Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks – cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.
Thomas McGuane
I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.
Chanel Iman
I like doing 25-minute intervals on the treadmill. I go back and forth with running and fast walking and keep changing the incline to high and low. Then I do 15 minutes of lifting light weights and all different kinds of sit-ups, squats, and stretches. I do this routine four days a week.
Colbie Caillat
Putting on weight for me is really, really hard. If I s

Putting on weight for me is really, really hard. If I stop lifting, or if I stop eating, I get skinny really quick.
Christopher Gorham
I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
Uri Geller
I like to do heavy lifting, so it’s a great thing to have meals that have a lot of protein to maintain that.
Jessie James Decker
I’ve never liked losing, ever since I was a boy in Macon, my hometown. I couldn’t watch other teams lifting trophies.
Antoine Griezmann
We both were a part of a contest when we first met, and I clearly remember that Debina was gymming when I first saw her. I too was in the gym, and I too started lifting weights to impress her. But she didn’t notice me at all.
Gurmeet Choudhary
I try to look for tempo in my run-up to make sure my knees are lifting up instead of going long. That brings an energy to my run-up, try and make myself feel as tall as I can.
Stuart Broad
I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It’s like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
Brad Meltzer
What’s the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?
Rose Namajunas
I know I might be a little crazy, but I love working out. It has a way of lifting my mood like nothing else can.
Jessica Mendoza
The acting part is easy; it’s the preparing – lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape – that’s the hard part.
Chaske Spencer
It meant so much to me lifting the Alex Higgins Trophy at Goffs.
Jimmy White
I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
Joel Osteen
I try to keep my routine as consistent as possible. I try to lift every single day. It’s not powerlifting. It’s not lifting to become the strongest man in the world. It’s lifting just to stay in shape. Stay lean. Stay injury free.
Quinn Cook
The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
Olympia Brown
I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so. It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I’d never been able to do before!
Bob Mortimer
I did a sitcom, and I really enjoyed looking for different ways to be funny – lifting that off of the page and just really expanding on it in a way that with procedural and drama, you can’t do as much.
Yannick Bisson
When it comes to being on stage, I might be on stage one minute and the next minute I might be in the audience, dancing and lifting people’s spirits.
Taboo
I think it’s a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.
Jane Kaczmarek
In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30 minutes, and then during the season I usually lift weights twice a week, sometimes a little more.
Steve Nash
When I’m lifting heavy, doing squats, and doing upper-body workouts, it’s mostly about core and stability. But I’ll still do deadlifts. I also do tire workouts with these big 600-pound tires, flipping them and stuff like that.
Aaron Judge
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
W. E. B. Du Bois
I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers and black holes, and my single visual hallucination of a little pink man and a pink ox on the floor of my bedroom.
Siri Hustvedt
As a child, I lived through and survived the segregated South. I sat at the back of the bus at a time when America wasn’t yet as great as it could be. As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future.
Donna Brazile
It’s easy to continue to go out to the field, even if I’m by myself or running and lifting and doing what I need to do – it’s actually easy because I love what I do.
Tobin Heath
I always see where I didn’t do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That’s a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang
It’s crazy because ‘Icy Girl’ came when I was in a dark place, but I made it to motivate myself. It was kind of like my anthem for lifting up my spirits.
Saweetie
One day when I was bored, I just went down to a powerlifting gym, Via Strength Systems in Albuquerque. I knew I needed to expend my energy somehow. I started working out with them four days a week. I became obsessed with lifting and being fit.
Jon Jones
You save most fuel by lifting and coasting in the heavy braking zones at the end of long straights into slow corners.
Lewis Hamilton
When I am brushing my teeth, I’m bending my leg behind me, or I’m lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I’m squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I’m washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.
Christie Brinkley
You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.
Mr. T
I do some 400 m. repetition running for endurance on the court. I’ll be in the gym lifting weights, or I’ll be putting in a lot of core stability to work to improve my balance.
Andy Murray
I've always enjoyed lifting heavy; I saw extremely good

I’ve always enjoyed lifting heavy; I saw extremely good results. I just got hooked, seeing how strong I got and how much my body changed.
Hafthor Bjornsson
I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.
Allyson Felix
I do know that lifting from the Net is rampant, journalists do it, students are bound to do it and obviously a lot of academics are also doing it.
Sucheta Dalal
I was way behind physically in high school. They had weight bars that were about forty-five pounds. I couldn’t handle them. Couldn’t even put the weights on. It was embarrassing. So I always figured out ways to avoid lifting when I was young.
Scottie Pippen
Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That’s how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
J. R. Smith
I remember when I was young, before we started lifting and working out, I looked like I was bench-pressing other humans. I looked different than other girls. I had to be OK with the fact that I had a strong physique, no matter if people looked at me in an accepting way or not.
Crystal Dunn
It’s always going to be hard when you see the other team lifting a trophy. When you have to walk up those stairs and collect the runners-up medal, it’s hard.
Jesse Lingard
Radio is where the heavy lifting will take place in wireless, and that’s where we need to integrate, and there of course will be some struggles during the process.
Rajeev Suri
I’m not a weight lifter. I’m a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.
Sri Chinmoy
Lifting a major trophy in front of an empty stadium would be a very strange feeling. But then you’d rather do that than not play at all.
Neil Robertson
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?
John Ensign
We do not agree with policies that would lead to attempts at easing sanctions or lifting them and returning to business as usual with Russia. We believe that such behaviour will only embolden the aggressive behavior of Russia, as the last 12 years have shown, starting with Russia’s attack on Georgia in 2008.
Andrzej Duda