I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!

I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.