Dan John Quotes

I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.

I think there are two keys to success. One is to show up. The other one is to keep going. Most people don’t keep going.

Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

The problem is yes, everything works. Doing everything at once makes you marginal at everything... at best.

I said it was simple. Not easy.

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

I only judge people by the depth of their squat.

If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.

Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.

If something is important, do it every day; if it's not important, don't do it at all.

The Goal is the keep the GOAL the GOAL

There are “bus bench” workouts and “park bench” workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.

The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.

It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.

Squats don't hurt your knees; what you are doing hurts your knees.

When things go wrong, simplify.

If it's important do it everyday.

The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free!

There is a price you pay if you want to train military personnel - they don't all come back.

Their highs are too low and their lows are too high.

If it is important do it everyday

There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.

Just tell me what to do. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I don't want to be here.

Come, enter into my imagination and see me as I truly am.

As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

Make yourself a slave to good habits

As we’re bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

Embrace lousy days. I’ve learned to remind myself easy days are part of the deal, and a great day is just around the corner.