Lifting Quotes

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The only really good thing about acting is that there`s no heavy lifting.

- Cary Grant

I guess I went a little nuts. But I knew I didn`t want to be at the (movie) premiere with 500 people 6 months down the line, embarrassed by my physical condition. So I developed a program that was Olympic in its intensity. Eight hours a day, six days a week, combining martial arts, yoga, weight lifting, running, swimming, and stationary bike. I went to Maui `cause I had to be in tropical climate to burn the fat. I brought my chef who had the difficult task of preparing three meals a day with no salt, no fat, no red meat, no cholesterol, and still keeping it interesting, you know? Maybe a plate of steam for breakfast. - On how (and why) he got so muscular and fit for the Rambo sequence in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993).

- Charlie Sheen

(on Anthony Head) "I can`t say enough about Anthony - he is one of the better actors I`ve ever worked with. He is the shit. He does the heavy lifting for the show with all that exposition. Every week he has to convince us that the world is going to come to an end again and again. He`s got to talk about the Box of Tathor or the Talisman of Nigeria or whatever and sell it. He has to give it weight so it doesn`t seem repetitious. He does that every time so well. And I knew Spike was a cool character when Anthony said so. So I had always wanted to do a scene with him." (May 2000)

- James Marsters

I had to start working on myself to be a little bit more in the lifting room and doing the fitness to keep up with the big girls.

- Martina Hingis

I also do push-ups when I can, but I normally don`t work out my upper body except when I`m lifting my kids, which usually is enough!

- Christine Lahti

I think it`s a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

- Jane Kaczmarek

I was supposed to play the world`s most dangerous woman and do a lot of action scenes. Then you can`t come in there like a couch-potato... so I started training at gyms, weight-lifting and all things possible, and then I`ve just continued with that a couple of times a week. (on how she manages to keep so fit when playing her "Alias" success-character Irina Derevko)

- Lena Olin

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

- Sugar Ray Leonard

He`s worked hard. He`s been active in our lifting program and put his time in this summer. He`s going to be a good back for us, and he got a good chance to run the ball for us today.

- Adam Beach

Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great.

- Peter Forsberg

I`ve got four months of hard (weight-)lifting ahead of me, ... I`ve been keeping up, eating right. But sitting around instead of playing I feel soft. That will change.

- Bret Boone

I don`t want to get my hopes up too high, but I`m just hoping that Dr. Yocum will tell me that it`s healing up to a point where I can start lifting weights. I`m tired of running. That`s all I`ve been doing.

- Troy Percival

The only exercise Keith does is lifting the bottle to the mouth.

- Ron Wood

the goal of the process will be to focus on accountability, compensation as called for in the resolutions protecting the families and eventually lifting of sanctions.

- James Cunningham

At some point you have to get away from the game and enjoy your life. I like to golf and travel, and take a good three weeks off before I start lifting.

- Jeremy Reed

I am into power lifting and I play football.

- James Long

With the lifting of restrictions and with the talent pool we have accumulated, we can expect that the growth will speed up a bit.

- James Lee

He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.

- Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

- Alan Curry

I`m trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we`re riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

- Alan Kreitzer

Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can`t look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

- Alan Russell

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

- Alan Yates

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

- Alane Fagin

They would rather the United States play the bad cop, and they could play the good cop - let the United States do all the heavy lifting here.

- Amber Klingler

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

- Anders Aslund

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

- Andrew Joudrey

There were like six of us all lifting on the car, ... One guy got under and pulled him out.

- Andy Trotter

In many ways we`re seeing that veil of fear is lifting. I think that we`re seeing something very real happening across the region in terms of progress toward opening up societies, opening up political systems and economic systems.

- Antonia Mochan

I was playing softball, and wasn`t playing baseball. I was on the bench in the beginning and I had to earn my ranks. I started to practice, went to the batting cages, starting running and lifting weights. Ever since then, I have been hitting either first or second in the lineup.

- Ashley Miles

Saddam`s goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq`s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

- Ashley Riessen

(Decreased daily activity. Countless women have told Peeke that they feel they need to work out twice as hard in their 40s as they did in their 20s and 30s to see results. What they`re not taking into account, though, is that their overall level of daily activity has decreased.) If you think about it, you`re no longer chasing kids and lifting them in and out of a Dodge Caravan, ... You need to make up for the difference.

- Augustus de Morgan

We didn`t have much to lose, so we took a gamble there. I was a little nervous. I was lifting early. It all worked out.

- Austin Elliot

It`s a good game tonight and a good start coming back. I started to feel comfortable; I didn`t at first. Teammates kept helping me and lifting me up.

- Bai Chunli

We are ready. I think that most of the players realized, right after that playoff game, that they were going to have to work harder than they did last year. The team has been running, lifting, hitting and working out every day. I`m very excited about the season.

- Barbara Gonzalez

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

- John Andrew Holmes

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

- Stephen R. Covey