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.

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.

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.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.

Deja Vu confirms a faithful path worth taking.

If I had to describe the scent of Michigan in spring and summer, it wouldn't be aparticular smell – blooming wildflowers or boat exhaust off the lake – it would be a color: Green.

I don't want to rip away the security that people finally have; 18 million people now have healthcare; preexisting conditions are no longer a bar.

Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.'

On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.