“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?”

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

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

The more knowledge you have, the more you’re free to rely on your instincts.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

You have to think outside the box.

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.

Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It’s great. I feel like I’m coming all day.

Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

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

I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.

Never follow the crowd, go where it’s empty.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don’t, no one else will.

I hurt so many people.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.

Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self.

Before we can experience the pure & serene state of love, we must learn how to give forgiveness – to ourselves & to others. Have you forgiven yourself?

Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.

Think of everything you’ve ever experienced that was painful; that’s the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that’s the meaning of Easter.

We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.