" Steve Reeves' physique was perfect. Fantastic physique , Not that huge body, but it was so perfect , so lean , that it became something incredible. Because every muscle , every tendon was perfect from his calves to his head . Verygood proportions , tremendous symmetry . And such a tremendous looking man. Well this man has been good looking , I think , since the day he came out of his mom . "
Sergio Oliva Ironman May 1995
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" Steve Reeves was a pure bodybuilder , that is , he trained specifically to shape his body a certain way , and he was buildt like a modern day Adonis. He was the most handsome , beautiful man that I had ever met in my life . " Beautiful " is not a word you usally use in describing a man , but in the case it applies. Even myself - and I'm ungodly masculine and hetrosexual - believe me , if he was in the room I could not keep my eyes off the guy . "
Bill Pearl Ironman May 1995
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" I don't think there is one chance in 50 trillion that the particular mix of hereditary genes that produced the product we see in Steve Reeves will ever occur in combination again. Steve was a very unusal bodybuilder. He had the overall beauty that no other bodybuilder has ever been able to achieve. I had the occasion to work with , photographically , most of the top bodybuilders in the world. But when the good Lord made Steve Reeves , he threw the mold away. There has never been another man , as we go back through all written word and graphic representation, who...ever came out like Steve did. He is from another galaxie.
" I'll never forget one evening when Steve accompanied Jack LaLanne and I to a resturant. When Steve entered the room, everyone stopped eating. You could hear the knives and forks drop. Some people froze with their mouths open. They looked at him in amazenent, as if he were a man from another world . Of course ,99-percent of them had never heard of Steve Reeves and thought he was a movie star. And this was the case wherever Steve set foot: there was admiration from the men , the women , and even the little children. "
" Lets face it : there is only one Steve Reeves. He's an original. I consider it my privilege to have been alive in that period of time when I had the association with Steve. I know as the years roll by, and we are all gone, Steve will live on in the history as the greatest of all time in the field of phsyical culture, in the addition to being one of the finest human beings ever created. "
Russ Warner
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" Dr Avard Fairbanks , a Guggenheim Fellow and one of the world's leading art figures, is renown as the world's greatest sculptor of Lincoln, and is the executor of over 90 major works on various subjects, includingthe Great Chicago Lincoln; The fighting Sioux Monument; the Poney Express Monument; The Pioneer Faimly Group Monument; and the statue of Lycurgus,still displayed in Sparta Greece.
Dr Fairbanks comments on Steve Reeves ; " The design of the human system is to bring oneself on line with the same harmonies that regulate the universe. It is these underlying forms and harmonies that elevate man's life and man's thinking. Steve Reeves is the epitome of a man bringing his physique into harmony with the universe he is a part of. He's the grandest example I have ever seen of Michelangelo's dream come true. It is unfortunate that Steve Reeves was not living during the Renaissance period, for the Masters would have worn their hands to the bone making statues of him. "
Avard Fairbanks Sculptor
Steve Reeves made an impact , greatest bodybuilder ever .
