I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.

If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

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.

The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.

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