Your muscles cannot get "longer" without some rather radical orthopedic surgery.

Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.

Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.

You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing

There is never an absolute answer to everything, except of course that you have to do your squats.