Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant... I mean there's nothing better than working for the people - working for the common people out there and being a servant, a public servant, and I have seen this.

Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.