Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

When I was playing soccer at the age of 14, the first thing we'd do before going out onto the field would be to climb up on one another's thighs and massage the legs; it was a regular thing. None of us had a thought of being gay, absolutely not, and it's the same with most bodybuilders.

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?