The pain that you hold is yours. There is not a single pain quite like it. Nobody else on God's green earth can feel this pain, or have the indescribable feeling of pride you will have when you overcome it. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege.

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.

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

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

What I'm doing is the thing I want to do. I don't care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I am what I am - which is I have aged.