J. Yates Quotes
If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn't stand a chance!
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting
The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big.
It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.
if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.
Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.
All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.
The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.
I also think you have less separation if you are fuller. If you go to the gym and pump your arms up they are bigger because of the blood volume, the fullness. But the separation is not so defined.
Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?
if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.
She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?
Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?
Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.
It's not that I'm afraid of death, but afraid of the thought of my people laid to rest; They saying there is 6 million ways of death but not even one way to fade the stress.
Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.
Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.
I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.
In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.
Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.
The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.
If Heaven is up, I'm going. I know I'm right in my heart. This world is not my home. This life will soon be gone, and, one day, I'll spread my wings, as an angel, and fly away.
