With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

I comfortably can say that I am a Republican and I always will be a Republican because the Republican party is a big tent and there was not always things that I agreed with or they didn't agree with me many times. But the fact of the matter is that's the philosophy, and everything that I've heard is exactly the same.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.

I had a clear vision of myself winning the Mr. Universe contest. It was a very spiritual thing, in a way, because I had such faith in the route, the path, that there was never a question in my mind that I would make it.

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.