You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

I think my weight-training proved to me more than anything that I can do anything in life if I really put my mind to it. I saw me bring myself from 137 pounds to 175 pounds over a seven-year period. That alone said to me that all you have to do is really stick with something, and you can accomplish anything you want. It's brought me great self-esteem because I know I did it. I changed me.

I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed society, somewhere along the line, we got the message that if we're not a brain surgeon or an astronaut, we really shouldn't be proud of ourselves.