The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

I make my protein drink with whiskey. People think I'm crazy, but that's the way I am. I get stoned, I do my own thing.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me, when I daydream, it's almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don't have to be uptight to get there because I already feel like I'm there, that it's just a matter of time.

And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California.