Weightlifting Quotes

I love the Hong Kong style of action movies, but that only looks good for small guys. The reason why the whole style was developed over there was because those guys were very puny guys - they`re not powerful-looking guys, they`re also not powerful guys. There`s no weightlifting champion coming out of Hong Kong - maybe in the bantam division or the lightweight division or something like that, but normally you don`t have really strong men coming out of there . . . they had to learn a technique that small people can do that are as effective as the big guy`s strength. So that`s where the martial arts came from.

I couldn`t get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

(On her serious weightlifting workouts): "I`m not a waif-like girl, and I like that. Never mind dainty; there`s nothing even remotely ladylike about a squat."

That`s the same in college. It`s the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.