C.T. Fletcher is the motherf**ckin’ master motivator of weight-training. Born in 1959, Fletcher grew up in an abusive home in Compton, California. After a stint in the army and earning a black belt in karate, he took up bodybuilding and powerlifting and attained world titles in the strict curl and the bench press. He underwent life-saving open-heart surgery in 2005 and was told he could never lift weights again.

In the years after, C.T. Fletcher’s inspiring story and profane motivational quotes took hold. He launched a popular YouTube channel (1.5 million subscribers) and Instagram account (2.6 million followers), as well as Iron Addicts Gym, and his hardcore mantras “It’s still yo motherf**king set!” and, directed at muscles, “I command you to grow!” went mainstream. C.T. Fletcher, who had a heart transplant in 2018, continues to lift heavy, and he continues to motivate men and women to take charge of their motherf**kin’ lives.

These are C.T. Fletcher’s best motivational quotes.

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C.T. Fletcher motivating / Instagram

โ€œSuffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret.โ€

โ€œIf you can control your mind, you can control your motherf**kinโ€™ muscles! Command them motherf**kers to grow!โ€

โ€œI donโ€™t wanna be one of the masses. Thatโ€™s why Iโ€™m here in the gym.โ€

 โ€œSome go big, I went enormous. Some set goals, I set milestones. Some climb hills, I climbed mountains. Some want growth, I command growth. Some said it was over, I said โ€œF**k you!โ€

 โ€œDonโ€™t look for an easy way out. Nobody wants to work hard these days. The 20-minute abs, the 10-minute this, the 10-minute that. F**k that! Come to the gym, work your ass off. Earn it!โ€

โ€œMay I have more please? May I have more pain? May I have more torture? Because I know this sh*t gonna make me grow!โ€

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CT Fletcher at 40 / Instagram

 โ€œEverything is impossible until someone crazy enough comes along and makes it possible.โ€

 โ€œDonโ€™t make no difference what it is. Iโ€™ma pick the s*ht up! How much it is?! Iโ€™ma pick the s*ht up! Thatโ€™s what I do; I pick s*ht up!โ€

โ€œPain is necessary. Embrace the pain.โ€

 โ€œF**k average. Beast or bitch, itโ€™s your choice.โ€

โ€œI command you to grow! You must grow! Iโ€™m the boss, motherf**ker! I tell you what to do; you donโ€™t tell me! I told your ass to grow. Grow!โ€

โ€œLive an extraordinary life. Donโ€™t settle for an ordinary life. Itโ€™s easy to be ordinary. Anybody can do that.โ€

โ€œHistory never remembers the haters.โ€

โ€œFind your magnificent obsession, whatever it is, and let nothing or no one tell you that you canโ€™t do it. Tell them to sit back and watch you do it!โ€

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โ€œThis is your wakeup call, motherf**ker! This is your week to make it happen! Wake up the Hercules in you!โ€

โ€œNo matter how slow you go you’re still lapping everybody on the couch.โ€

 โ€œPain is a necessary evil. Get used to it, motherf**ker. Make friends with it and then kick f**king painโ€™s ass!โ€

โ€œThe best judge of what you should or shouldnโ€™t do inside the gym is your own f**king body. Learn to listen to it. It’ll speak to you. Your body will tell you if a movement or an exercise is working.โ€

โ€œIf you wanted to be a mere mortal, you wouldnโ€™t be here doing this sh*t! Youโ€™d be at home, on the couch, looking at T.V. with the rest of those fat motherf**kers!โ€

โ€œF**k being so strict. F**k going by the book. F**K THE BOOK! At the end, the last set of every exercise is always until failureโ€”until you canโ€™t f**king do no more!โ€

โ€œUnchain your mind. Unchain your mind from the imprisonment of fear. Unchain your mind. Itโ€™s been caged with doubt. Unchain your mind. Lose yourself. Let yourself free from the binds of average, from the binds of normal.โ€

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โ€œF**k mediocracy! I donโ€™t wanna be mediocre. F**k being like everybody else. I donโ€™t wanna be like everybody else. F**k being in between. All or nothing baby, there is no in between!โ€

โ€œItโ€™s no problem for me to eat the same thing every f**king day because Iโ€™m not eating โ€™cause something tastes good. Iโ€™m eating for the f**king results. People will say, โ€˜I hate diet food because the diet food taste so bad.โ€™ Motherf**ker, you ainโ€™t eating this sh*t for it to taste good. Youโ€™re eating because you want the results itโ€™ll give, the way it’ll make you look.โ€

โ€œObsession isnโ€™t always a bad thing. Obsession is a downright requirement to be great.โ€

โ€œYou may have been born with more genetic prowess than me, but you canโ€™t out-determine me, you canโ€™t out-will me, you canโ€™t out-want me, you canโ€™t outwork me, you canโ€™t out-desire me. Iโ€™m the king of that sh*t!โ€

โ€œThe most powerful motivational speeches that Iโ€™ve ever heard came from people who told me I couldnโ€™t do something. I was bound and determined to show them that I could.โ€

โ€œNever accept the limitations of someone else.โ€

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โ€œItโ€™s still yo motherf**kin’ set!โ€