Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
