I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period.

I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.

I always go heavy and I always go to failure.

You wanna be big, you lift big weights. You wanna be little, you lift little weights.

The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes.

I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability.

I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.

It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF IN YOURSELF.

When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder.

There's no set future, only the one we make.

By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.

Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

A black belt is a white belt who never quits!

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!