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 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 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.

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.

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.

Fate doesn’t care about family. When the time is up, she nicks at the thread

You don’t put pressure on me to be something I’m incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am.

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

You either have chemistry or you don't, but a lot of what attracts me is a guy's mind and humor and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall for someone.

Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after.

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.