1. “Get out, realize your dream, and go for it.” – Kai Greene
2. “Bodybuilding has been the tool that single-handedly taught a little black boy from the projects to use his mind to achieve success. it taught me to see things for what they can be. I had 17-inch arms; I imagined them to be 24 inches. The power of my mind allowed me to achieve what I imagined.” – Kai Greene
3. “We are here to learn and to make our dreams realized.” – Kai Greene
4. “It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.” – Kai Greene
5. “It’s like you have to save your own life, nobody is going to be your savior for you, so we have to do what we have to do, no matter what it is.” – Kai Greene
6. “I spend so much money on food, just getting the food for me is a tremendous expense, so there’s no way I could even think about paying for supplements. I think of all supplements as food derivative anyway, so If I can only choose between getting the food or the supplements I’d rather opt for the food.” – Kai Greene
7. “I’ve found my true calling in life, and I’m living life on my terms.” – Kai Greene
8. “Nothing comes easy, but as long as you’re breathing, you’re always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count.” – Kai Greene
9. “Is it 10g of protein more or 10g of protein less, who cares, just get started.” – Kai Greene
10. “I’ve never competed in powerlifting. But my goals weren’t to be a powerlifter. My goals were to pack on size and get big, big, big.” – Kai Greene
11. “I feel it is a tremendous compliment to a natural competitor to hear “I just don’t believe you’re natural,” because it means you just look that good.” – Kai Greene
12. “If you don’t believe you can do something then you can’t.” – Kai Greene
13. “They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I’m living my life, I’m doing it. What are you doing?” – Kai Greene
14. “The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you’re trying to hit.” – Kai Greene
15. “I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don’t ask than we don’t learn.” – Kai Greene
16. “If you don’t have a dream, then you have nothing to work for, nothing to get up in the morning for, no reason and no purpose to be. But friends, we do have a dream and dreams do come true not because we keep believing, but we keep working hard” – Kai Greene
17. “You come to a point in your life and you may be in bed just thinking about it. Ask yourself what is stopping you from becoming your dreams.” – Kai Greene
18. “Do not let yourself be contaminated by others’ ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.” – Kai Greene
19. “The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or herself, without the threat of you leaving.” – Kai Greene
20. “Champions are an example of what happens when you decide to leave the plane of average thinking, where you dare to dream and you dare to go after that dream, and you make these thoughts and ideas become more than something than just a dream. They actually become a vision.” – Kai Greene
21. “The person with the biggest dreams is more powerful than the person with all the answers.” – Kai Greene
22. “I never gave up, even when people told me I’d never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion.” – Kai Greene
23. “I am a believer, I believe that we shape and create the life that we choose, and I believe that the tool that we have to do that is our mind” – Kai Greene
24. “Your dreams will always be more important to you than anyone else, you can want something as much as you want but at the end of the day your mum doesn’t care if your arms are 24 inches or not, but that doesn’t mean you give up, chase your dreams.” – Kai Greene
25. “Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.” – Kai Greene
26. “For me I’m natural not because somebody else believes I’m natural, I’m natural because I don’t use steroids, I don’t use growth hormone, I don’t use any of those enhancers. I’m natural in my own right because I don’t do that and not because other people accept the fact that I’m natural or not.” – Kai Greene
27. “Victory isn’t defined by wins or losses. It is defined by effort. If you can truthfully say, ‘I did the best I could, I gave everything I had,’ then you’re a winner.” – Kai Greene
28. “You have to think before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible.” – Kai Greene
29. “The power of my mind allowed me to achieve what I imagined.” – Kai Greene
30. “If I have to die tonight, if this weight is going to kill me tonight, so be it! I am dying where I want to be.” – Kai Greene
31. “What am I doing with my life? Am I just going to some humdrum job that I don’t really want to be at, doing some minuscule task, getting paid to be a mindless drone? Or am I out there living life, on my terms, the way I want to live it, doing the things that I want to do?” – Kai Greene
32. “My goal is to be a contributor and to encourage others as they realize their dreams.” – Kai Greene
33. “I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that’s the truth!” – Kai Greene
34. “The mind is everything. If you don’t believe you can do something then you can’t. If you believe that your upbringing was substandard and therefore you have to walk around as a refugee from that crisis situation for the rest of your life, forever bearing the burden of that experience then that will be YOUR life.” – Kai Greene
35. “If you accuse me of being on drugs because I’m very focused on what I do, because I’m very serious, because I’m very hungry, because I can squat 800 lbs, because I can bench 500 lbs, because I can press 315 behind my neck, and if these things don’t fit under what you consider to be natural, then I don’t want to be a natural. I don’t want to be what you depict as a natural. I want to define myself for me.” – Kai Greene
36. “I’ve never competed in powerlifting. But my goals weren’t to be a powerlifter. My goals were to pack on size and get big, big, big.” – Kai Greene
37. “If a man doesn’t have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be” – Kai Greene
38. “I’ve found my true calling in life, and I’m living life on my terms.” – Kai Greene
39. “In the beginning it wasn’t bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I’m still evolving.” – Kai Greene
40. “Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion. When you are destined for greatness, it shows in everything you do. It becomes you.” – Kai Greene
41. “It’s like you have to save your own life, nobody is going to be your savior for you, so we have to do what we have to do, no matter what it is” – Kai Greene
42. “Your dreams are always going to be the most important to you, more than they will be to anybody else. So keep dreaming, keep believing, keep pressing forward. So all those warriors out there – be encouraged.” – Kai Greene
43. “In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece.” – Kai Greene