“If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.”

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt – just absolute confidence in yourself.

I’ll be back.

I think the first and most important thing is that you’ve got to have a goal and a vision.

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

You have to do everything possible to win no matter what.

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

The pain that you hold is yours. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Don’t be afraid to fail. Anything that I’ve ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can’t always win, but don’t be afraid of making decisions.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.