“Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.”

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.

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

Discipline is what you use when you don’t want to do something, when you have to force yourself.