If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.

As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.