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quote[0]="<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;I love weightlifting!"
author[0]="&nbsp;&nbsp;Arnold Schwartznegger"

quote[1]="My mind is only on the competition. I am not thinking of anything else."
author[1]="Naim Suleimanoglu"

quote[2]="Nobody knows how Alexeyev trained. He trained alone or when no one was around."
author[2]="Leonid Taranenko"

quote[3]="I believe that I was born to be a lifter. I don't know whether I could have achieved success in another field."
author[3]="David Rigert"

quote[4]="David Rigert was always ready to lift. He trained and lifted like a lifter should. It is not only what you lift, but it is how you lift it. He also looked like a lifter should look."
author[4]="Yurik Vardanyan"

quote[5]="There aren't any more Olympics. They're the money games."
author[5]="Norbert Schemansky"

quote[6]="Give me a man who is ambitious, who has a burning desire to be a champion and nine times out of ten he will become a champion."
author[6]="Bob Hoffman"

quote[7]="I got robbed by politicians. In 1984, I had to win the gold medal at the Olympics by all laws of physics."
author[7]="Anatoly Pisarenko"

quote[8]="Vlasov was a superman, indeed. He was multi-dimensional. People admired and worshipped him."
author[8]="Alexander Nilin"

quote[9]="It's a great pleasure for me every time I win a gold medal. I am always happy when I win."
author[9]="Halil Mutlu"

quote[10]="I don't feel pressure, I just want to enjoy the competition."
author[10]="Pyrros Dimas"

quote[11]="I felt abandoned by my people. I expected more respect from those with whom I have worked for many years."
author[11]="Ivan Abadzhiev (2000)"

quote[12]="Abadzhiev is the greatest coach of the past and is still great now. The coaches in Turkey are as great as him."
author[12]="Halil Mutlu"

quote[13]="Paul Anderson was unreachable even in our dreams of that time."
author[13]="Yury Vlasov" 

quote[14]="Any strength is powerless without a character enlightened by intelligence."
author[14]="Yury Vlasov"

quote[15]="The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent."
author[15]="Arnold Schwarzenegger"

quote[16]="I always found the term ironic because now that we have Dream Teams, we seldom ever get to dream."
author[16]="Herb Brooks" 

quote[17]="I don't think about my rivals but about the weight I'll have to lift."
author[17]="Vasily Alexeev"

quote[18]="I'll have time to work on my looks when I retire from weightlifting."
author[18]="Vasily Alexeev"

quote[19]="My advice for training is to think, think, think!"
author[19]="Vasily Alexeev"

quote[20]="What kind of youth are they? They are about 30! It's me who is young and coming up. I am no worse than I was in 1970 when I was 28 years old!"
author[20]="Vasily Alexeev"

quote[21]="Alexeev was a living legend and he knew it. Modesty was never Vasily's strong suit."
author[21]="Bruce Klemens"

quote[22]="Alexeev is a master. an unusual man in an unusual sport. Both as a competitor and a personality he towers above his fellow weightlifters in the same way Ali stands out in boxing and Billi Jean King in tennis"
author[22]="Arnold Schwarzenegger"

quote[23]="I am the best table tennis player on the Soviet weightlifting team. I am also the best at draughts, dominoes, billiards and, of course, lifting the weights!"
author[23]="Vasily Alexeev"

quote[24]="I gained world fame overnight by breaking several world records. The Russians called me \"the strongest man who ever lived... a wonder of nature.\""
author[24]="Paul Anderson"

quote[25]="If you don't bend those legs and do those squats, you'll never reach your potential."
author[25]="Paul Anderson"

quote[26]="Anderson's strength outstripped the capacity of barbells of the time, so he improvised using iron wheels and other equipment that he made himself."
author[26]="Dr. Strossen"

quote[27]="There were some 10,000 spectators at Madison Square Garden last night for a weightlifting contest that matched the seven strongest men of Russia against the mightiest musclemen of the United States."
author[27]="New York Times, May 18, 1958"

quote[28]="MINSK, Soviet Union, March 18 (AP) Vasily Alexeyev of the Soviet Union became the first man to total 600 kilograms (1,322 pounds) as he broke his two-month-old world weightlifting record today, Tass reported."
author[28]="New York Times, Sep 24, 1969"

quote[29]="Isaac Berger, the possessor of some of the most feared and revered muscles in the international society of weightlifters, walks along Brooklyn streets virtually unnoticed."
author[29]="New York Times, Oct 5, 1958"

quote[30]="Two weightlifters, one representing the United States and the other the Soviet Union, exchanged their barbells for napkins in an early-morning eating contest yesterday. The food won."
author[30]="New York Times, May 19, 1958"

quote[31]="ROME, Sept. 10 (UPI) - Russia's fantastic heavyweight, Yuri Vlasov, broke the world's weight-lifting record three times in three hoists tonight to win the Olympic gold medal."
author[31]="New York Times, Sep 11, 1960"

quote[32]="HELSINKI, Finland, July 28 (AP) - An American weightlifting official said today that the Russians used a secret weapon in the barbell competition -- a vial of potent stuff that they sniffed between lifts."
author[32]="New York Times, Jul 29, 1952"

quote[33]="Brutal men with muscles used to beat up skinny Bob Hoffman, kick him around and steal his girls. So Bob bought a set of barbells and soon his biceps were popping from his T-shirt. The bigger he got, the more barbells he bought, until finally he bought a whole barbell factory."
author[33]="New York Times, Dec 7, 1958"

quote[34]="In lifting, you must be superior in strength, speed, flexibilty and coordination plus have a lot of courage. Most sports require only one or two of those things."
author[34]="Geoff Fleming"








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