If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!

I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.

If you feel that something's going to affect your body, then it definitely will. I've always found that sex gives me a kind of calm, and I'm much more in control because of it. It's the same for friends of mine who are also top bodybuilders.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

No matter what you do, you first have to have a vision... to see your goal, to believe in it, have faith in it and chase it. And then it's fun to chase it. If you don't have a goal or a vision, then you have nothing.