Muscle Power Quotes

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.

My genetics are good, but they aren't crazy He-Man style.

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

I wish to improve my power, but not in a home run way.

It's not that hard to climb a pole. All you need are powerful thighs and an empty soul.

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.

A lot of guys just punch with their arms; they don't utilize every part of their muscles they can use. I know how to use that, and that's where the power comes in.

When I first started working with Victoria's Secret, I wanted to get stronger. That was something I wanted to build on and really be as strong and powerful as I could be. Working with Victoria's Secret, I started really thinking about my body and my muscles.

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

Good arms are overrated.

If I didn't have quads and hamstrings, soccer would be a lot different for me than it is now. I would be pushed all over the field. My lower body is something that has made me the player I am today, and it makes me feel strong.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

You got to have a lot of mass to be able to produce a lot of ground reaction force, to function off of the ground, to press off of the ground.

See, I hold myself through my own muscle strength. That is why I'm built like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The agents of S.M.A.S.H. are the most powerful team in the Marvel universe in terms of muscle power.

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.

The true measure of strength is through a squat and deadlift.

I have unreasonably strong leg muscles.

In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

You don't need brains for this job, just physical stamina.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

In the real world, most criminals and powerful persons look lean and use only their mind. Only in films we see villains with a six-pack.