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.

People get very creative if you include them.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.

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

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.