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2) I like to lift weights only to get strong: Wrong.

Top Olympic lifters recognize that fact that weights are not the beginning nor the end of strength training. You first have to know how to lift you own body weight gracefully. You can be a powerlifter, deadlifting and squatting multiple times of your bodyweight, yet you might never learned the healthy technique of walking, sitting for long hours, or bending to lift a 20 pounds infant. 

Healthy strength is a balance between: mobility, stability, coordination, flexibility, and agility. If you develop strength like a bodybuilder you jeopardize 4 out 5 elements of healthy strength: less mobility, poor coordination, poor flexibility, and diminished agility. If you develop strength like a powerlifter, you jeopardize 5 out 5 elements of healthy strength. Powerlifters develop awesome groups of muscles that incur serous joints imbalance and put the person in compromising situation of injuries. If you develop the strength of a wrestler you only compromise the stability element, since wrestlers have to concentrate on agility. Free-style weightlifting would be you best bid for long healthy strength.